A state of agitation or turbulent change or development.
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.
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Rice vinegar is simply rice wine that has been allowed to ferment.
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Let it ferment; in twenty-four hours it will be ready for bottling.
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In the tumultuous year of 1859 all Italy was in a ferment.
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The vessel was then left to ferment for upward of ten days.
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The boxes were in a ferment like the stir of swarming bees.
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For the racial ferment had been strong in him, as in her.
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But the issue of Königgrätz startled Napoleon and set France in ferment.
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The ferment was showing itself in acts of open and violent disorder.
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All of Europe is in a ferment, is bubbling over in places.
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The whole palace was in a ferment with literary intrigues and cabals.
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It is the heat and the ferment that have got into life.
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Such attempts now began to keep the peninsula in a constant ferment.
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This was enough to set the six little Bunkers in a ferment.
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This was continued till the public mind was in a perfect ferment.
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And the verse of quicker figures has a new fire and ferment.
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The next step after the milk is obtained is to ferment it.
