foment 音标拼音: [f'omɛnt]
vt . 热罨,煽动
热罨,煽动
foment v 1 :
try to stir up public opinion [
synonym : {
agitate }, {
foment },
{
stir up }]
2 :
bathe with warm water or medicated lotions ; "
His legs should be fomented "
Foment \
Fo "
ment \,
n .
1 .
Fomentation .
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Webster 1913 Suppl .]
2 .
State of excitation ; --
perh .
confused with ferment .
He came in no conciliatory mood ,
and the foment was kept up . --
Julian Ralph .
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Webster 1913 Suppl .]
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 .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
To cherish with heat ;
to foster . [
Obs .]
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1913 Webster ]
Which these soft fires . . .
foment and warm .
--
Milton .
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1913 Webster ]
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 .
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1913 Webster ]
But quench the choler you foment in vain . --
Dryden .
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Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion .
--
Southey .
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1913 Webster ]
202 Moby Thesaurus words for "
foment ":
abate ,
abet ,
advance ,
agitate ,
agitation ,
allay ,
alleviate ,
anesthetize ,
annoy ,
appease ,
arouse ,
assuage ,
awake ,
awaken ,
benumb ,
blow the coals ,
blow up ,
bluster ,
bobbery ,
boil ,
boiling ,
brouhaha ,
bustle ,
call forth ,
call up ,
chafe ,
churn ,
commotion ,
conturbation ,
cook ,
cultivate ,
cushion ,
deaden ,
deaden the pain ,
diminish ,
discomposure ,
disorder ,
disquiet ,
disquietude ,
disturbance ,
dull ,
ease ,
ease matters ,
ebullition ,
egg on ,
electric -
heat ,
embroilment ,
encourage ,
enkindle ,
enrage ,
excite ,
excitement ,
fan ,
fan the fire ,
fan the flame ,
feed the fire ,
ferment ,
fermentation ,
fever ,
feverishness ,
fidgets ,
fire ,
fire up ,
flame ,
flap ,
flurry ,
fluster ,
flutteration ,
forward ,
foster ,
frenzy ,
fume ,
further ,
fuss ,
galvanize ,
gas -
heat ,
give relief ,
goad ,
heat ,
heat up ,
hot ,
hot up ,
hot -
air -
heat ,
hot -
water -
heat ,
hubbub ,
hurly -
burly ,
impassion ,
incense ,
incite ,
inflame ,
infuriate ,
initiate ,
inquietude ,
inspire ,
instigate ,
jitters ,
jumpiness ,
key up ,
kindle ,
lather up ,
lay ,
lessen ,
light the fuse ,
light up ,
lull ,
madden ,
maelstrom ,
malaise ,
mitigate ,
moil ,
mollify ,
motivate ,
move ,
mull ,
nerviness ,
nervosity ,
nervousness ,
nettle ,
numb ,
nurse ,
nurture ,
overexcite ,
overheat ,
pad ,
palliate ,
perturbation ,
pique ,
poultice ,
pour balm into ,
pour oil on ,
preheat ,
promote ,
prompt ,
provoke ,
put up to ,
raise ,
rally ,
recook ,
reduce ,
reheat ,
relieve ,
restlessness ,
roil ,
rouse ,
rout ,
row ,
salve ,
seethe ,
seething ,
set ,
set astir ,
set fire to ,
set on ,
set on fire ,
sic on ,
slacken ,
slake ,
soften ,
soothe ,
spur ,
start ,
steam ,
steam up ,
stimulate ,
stir ,
stir the blood ,
stir the embers ,
stir the feelings ,
stir up ,
stoke up ,
stupe ,
subdue ,
summon up ,
superheat ,
swirl ,
tepefy ,
tickle ,
to -
do ,
trepidation ,
trepidity ,
tumult ,
tumultuation ,
turbidity ,
turbulence ,
turmoil ,
turn on ,
twitter ,
unease ,
unrest ,
upset ,
urge ,
wake ,
wake up ,
waken ,
warm ,
warm over ,
warm the blood ,
warm up ,
whet ,
whip up ,
work into ,
work up
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