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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
Synonyms
Examples for "fermenting"
Examples for "fermenting"
1
And she could see that an idea was fermenting in his head.
The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
2
That mixing and fermenting of ideas really adds to the whole environment.
The Guardian
3
Comrade Roodhouse was busy in the crowd, sowing calumnies and fermenting wrath.
Demos
4
So it has been fermenting in your mind as long as that.
Rosmersholm
5
After fermenting twenty or thirty days it is applied to the field.
Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, ...
1
There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
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