Crossword-Solution: LEAVENING 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Leavening p. pr. & vb. n. of Leaven
Leavening n. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means
of leaven.
Leavening n. That which leavens or makes light.

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Yeast role 1 answer
Dough raiser. 2 answers
Yeast, e.g. 3 answers
Yeast 13 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with LEAVENING (5)

They are mostly Spanish and Indian _mestizos_, with a shading of San Domingo Negroes, a lightening of pure-blood Spanish officials and a slight leavening of the froth of three or four pioneering white races.
Whirligigs O. Henry 1999
And, broadcast, through the people, was the upright sturdiness of the Scotch-Irishman, without his narrowness and bigotry; the grace and chivalry of the Cavalier without his Quixotic sentiment and his weakness; the jovial good-nature of the English squire and the leavening spirit of a simple yeomanry that bore itself with unconscious tenacity to traditions that seeped from the very earth.
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come John Fox 2000
But an analogy is not an explanation, and why a few drops of yeast should change a saccharine mixture to carbonic acid and alcohol,--a little leaven leavening the whole lump,--not by combining with it, but by setting a movement at work, we not only cannot explain, but the fact is such an exception to the recognized laws of combination that Liebig is unwilling to admit the new force at all to which Berzelius had given the name so generally accepted.
Medical Essays Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2006
This is supposed to have been done from the earliest time of PADI planting, so that the basket contains some of the original stock of seed, or at least the virtue of it leavening the whole.
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo Charles Hose and William McDougall 2002
She was the kind of girl that might have fancies for artists and poets, but might end by marrying a prosperous broker, and leavening a vast lump of moneyed and fashionable life with her culture, generosity, and good-will.
A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Third William Dean Howells 2004

Quotes with LEAVENING (3)

Have You Prayed” When the windturns and asks, in my father’s voice, Have you prayed? I know three things. One: I’m never finished answering to the dead. Two: A man is four winds and three fires. And the four winds are his father’s voice, his mother’s voice . . .Or maybe he’s seven winds and ten fires. And the fires are seeing, hearing, touching, dreaming, thinking . . .Or is he the breath of God? When the wind turns travelerand asks, in my father’s voice, Have you prayed? I r…
Li-Young Lee Behind My Eyes [With CD]
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.
Morris West The Devil's Advocate
I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.
Ben Okri
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1944–2001).