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Meanings of fermenting in English

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
Usage of fermenting in English
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, ...
6
Non-fermenting Gram-negative bacilli are at the center of the antimicrobial resistance epidemic.
Pubmed
7
But we mustn't be late. Things were fermenting, dissolving behind his windows.
The Centauri Device
8
But surely it was to be found here in fermenting war-distracted Brittany.
Sir Nigel
9
The mid-winter aroma of a fermenting pit probably also has its fans.
The Irish Times
10
An indescribable sickening stench arose from these fermenting masses of human filth.
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
11
To Mr Goble, fermenting and full of strange oaths, entered Johnson Miller.
The Little Warrior
12
What does he gain by keeping and fermenting the manure under cover?
Talks on Manures / A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Betw...
13
Near the fermenting San Tomás garbage dump my motorcycle had a flat.
Conquest of the Useless
14
Before fermenting and pickling make sure you know what good safety practice is.
The Irish Times
15
In a cool environment, kraut can continue fermenting slowly for months.
The Guardian
16
The method consists simply in testing the fermenting qualities of the milk used.
The Story of Germ Life
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