foment

Speech parts

1. foment - Noun

2. foment - Verb

Meaning

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

To cherish with heat; to foster.

To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

agitate stir up kindle rouse cause move produce fire foster fuel drive promote raise generate occasion
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Antonyms

cripple damage break block check cloud
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Hypernyms

stimulate provoke bathe

Hyponyms

rumpus

Derivatives

fomented Fomenting

Examples

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. Abigail Adams

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution. Martin Firrell

Shame on accursed tsarism which tortured and persecuted the Jews. Shame on those who foment hatred towards the Jews, who foment hatred towards other nations. Vladimir Lenin

There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life. Alan Dershowitz

Must stay there and also foment war and revolt against England. Doesn't he yet know of the intended alliance, under which he is to be Commander in Chief?! Wilhelm II of Germany

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America. Stephen Kinzer

Close letter words and terms

Fomba Fomby FOMC fomentation fomenter fomentress