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Meanings of ferment in English

Portuguese
agitação
Catalan
agitació
Spanish
agitación

A state of agitation or turbulent change or development.

        agitação
        Portuguese
        fermentação
        Catalan
        fermentació

        A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol.

              fermentação
              Portuguese
              apodrecer
              Catalan
              agrir-se
              Spanish
              amargar

              Go sour or spoil.

                    apodrecer
                    Usage of ferment in English
                    1
                    Rice vinegar is simply rice wine that has been allowed to ferment.
                    The everything chinese cookbook: from wonton soup to sweet and s...
                    2
                    Let it ferment; in twenty-four hours it will be ready for bottling.
                    The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) / Cooking, Toilet and Household R...
                    3
                    In the tumultuous year of 1859 all Italy was in a ferment.
                    Life of Robert Browning
                    4
                    The vessel was then left to ferment for upward of ten days.
                    Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
                    5
                    The boxes were in a ferment like the stir of swarming bees.
                    Massimilla Doni
                    6
                    For the racial ferment had been strong in him, as in her.
                    Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India
                    7
                    But the issue of Königgrätz startled Napoleon and set France in ferment.
                    Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
                    8
                    The ferment was showing itself in acts of open and violent disorder.
                    In the Days of Poor Richard
                    9
                    All of Europe is in a ferment, is bubbling over in places.
                    Children of the Market Place
                    10
                    The whole palace was in a ferment with literary intrigues and cabals.
                    Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
                    11
                    It is the heat and the ferment that have got into life.
                    The Other Girls
                    12
                    Such attempts now began to keep the peninsula in a constant ferment.
                    The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
                    13
                    This was enough to set the six little Bunkers in a ferment.
                    Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's
                    14
                    This was continued till the public mind was in a perfect ferment.
                    Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure
                    15
                    And the verse of quicker figures has a new fire and ferment.
                    Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies
                    16
                    The next step after the milk is obtained is to ferment it.
                    Russian Rambles
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                    Translations for ferment
                    Ferment through the time
                    Ferment across language varieties
                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Less common