foment

[fo·ment]

Stand outside the school cafeteria passing out flyers with nutritional details on school food, and you may foment a revolution––foment means stirring up something undesirable, such as trouble.

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

Verb
bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be fomented"

Verb
try to stir up public opinion


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

v. t.
To cherish with heat; to foster.

v. t.
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.


Foment

Fo*ment" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fomented; p. pr. & vb. n. Fomenting.] [F. fomenter, fr. L. fomentare, fr. fomentum (for fovimentum) a warm application or lotion, fr. fovere to warm or keep warm; perh. akin to Gr. to roast, and E. bake.] 1. To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid. 2. To cherish with heat; to foster. [Obs.]
Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm.
3. 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. Locke.
But quench the choler you foment in vain.
Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion.

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

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