ferment
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ferment
- /fəˈmɛnt/ UK
- /fɚˈmɛnt/ US
- /ˈfɜː.mɛnt/ UK
- /ˈfɚ.mɛnt/ US
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
From Middle English ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentāre (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), possibly from contraction of *fervimentum, from fervēre. See also fervent.
verb ferments · fermenting · fermented
- To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew. The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together
- To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in. Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.
Similar: yeast
noun ferments
- Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
- A state of agitation or of turbulent change. Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
- A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation. A Rage of Pleaſure madden'd every Breaſt, / Down to the loweſt Lees the Ferment ran: [...]
- A catalyst.
