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Foment

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To promote the growth of; incite.

v. To treat (the skin, for example) by fomentation.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.

v. To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

v. To cherish with heat; to foster.

v. To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense.

n. Fomentation.

n. State of excitation; -- perh. confused with ferment.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A warm lotion; fomentation.

To apply warm lotions to; bathe with warm medicated liquids or warm water.

To cherish with heat; encourage or promote the growth of by or as if by heat.

To encourage; abet; instigate or promote by incitement: commonly used in a bad sense: as, to foment discord.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. try to stir up public opinion

v. bathe with warm water or medicated lotions

Word Usage

"Speak platitudes in English, foment terrorism in Arabic and the United States will apply pressure to fellow democracies over and against those who rule by bullets rather than ballots. ""

Verb Form

fomented fomenting foments

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

bathe bath

Cross Reference

foster incite

Form

fomentation

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

foster encourage abet instigate fomentation