ferment

Speech parts

1. ferment - Noun

2. ferment - Verb

Meaning

That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.

Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.

A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.

To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.

To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.

To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

eddy ado tempest mull work turn brewing spawn distil fizz bacteria combustion fever enzyme bubble
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Antonyms

order cripple daunt damage break block
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Hypernyms

convert turn heat substance wake ignite

Hyponyms

bottom fermentation vinify vinification top fermentation

Phrases with the word

lactic ferment fibrin ferment

Derivatives

fermented fermenting

Examples

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory. James Tobin

In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius, in a succeeding generation exhibit merely pedantry and routine. Ted Sizer

The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction. Ivan Pavlov

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. Josh Billings

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas. Crescent Dragonwagon

Water in august: oil and ferment. Corsican Proverb

Close letter words and terms

fermate Fermatian ferme fermentability fermentable fermental