[
US
/ˈfɝmɛnt, fɝˈmɛnt/
]
VERB
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work up into agitation or excitement
This religion is fermenting Africa -
be in an agitated or excited state
The Middle East is fermenting
Her mind ferments -
go sour or spoil
The wine worked
The cream has turned--we have to throw it out
The milk has soured -
cause to undergo fermentation
The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats
We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content
NOUN
- a substance capable of bringing about fermentation
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a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
social unrest
the political ferment produced new leadership - a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
How To Use ferment In A Sentence
- But emotional ferment still seething from his betrayed boyhood keeps his body churning with unruly symptoms. Times, Sunday Times
- _ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
- Intestinal gas is typically caused by the fermentation of undigested food, such as plant fiber, in the colon.
- If you try ferments at home, you may find some interesting microfauna try to crash the party. Fear not fermentation | Radical Futures Project
- When making bread with the fermented dough, the dough must be removed from the fridge at least 2 hours in advance, to allow it to prove.
- Besides, double bottom fermentation and multiple bottom fermentation are simple and effective measures.
- The Alsace growers ferment their wines to complete dryness.
- Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation. Archive 2006-11-01
- The bubbles form due to dissolved carbon dioxide, which are produced during fermentation inside the bottles. Times, Sunday Times
- Now, as for those in our church who contend for the ceremonies, many of them are led by such _argumenta inartificialia_, as wealth, preferment, &c., and if conscience be at all looked to by them, yet they only throw and extort an assent and allowance from it, when worldly respects have made them to propend and incline to an anterior liking of the ceremonies. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)