fermented

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fermented

  • /fɹ̩ˈmɛntʰəd/ US

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of ferment

adjective more fermented · most fermented

  1. Produced by fermentation. During the Goguryeo kingdom (37 B.C. to A.D. 668), the Maek people in the northern Korean Peninsula ate maekjeok, a dish of grilled pork marinated in doenjang, a fermented soybean paste. Years later, maekjeok evolved into neobiani, a dish of broad, thin slices of beef tenderized and grilled over fla
  2. Of food or drink, turned sour due to unwanted fermentation.

    Similar: sour, soured, rancid, bad

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Closest in meaning: soured, hard, lager-conditioned, biorefined, processed, antifermentative, diastatic, ultrapasteurized, fracedinous, aerated, dry-hopped, transudated, ground, dry-cured, filtered, torrefied

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adj turned sour

Русскийквашеный kvášenyj, скисший skísšij, прокисший prokísšij

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@misc{fermented_2026,
  title = {fermented},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fermented},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}