Crossword-Solution: FERMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ferment | n. | That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. |
| Ferment | n. | Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation. |
| Ferment | n. | A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation. |
| Ferment | n. | To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat. |
| Ferment | v. i. | To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent oarticles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce. |
| Ferment | v. i. | To be agitated or excited by violent emotions. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with FERMENT (5)
There would be such a ferment, sir, that I do not hesitate to say that within a week of the publication of that letter this country would be involved in a great war.” Holmes wrote a name upon a slip of paper and handed it to the Premier.
When she took the paste out to bake it, she left smears of dough sticking to the sides of the measure, put the measure on the shelf behind the stove, and let this residue ferment.
Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper.- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment the wort to form wash.
His socialism was accompanied by a passing phase of vegetarianism, and with the ferment of youth working headily within him he could hardly escape the charge of being a crank, but "a crank, if a little thing, makes revolutions," and Brooke's youthful extravagances were utterly untinged with decadence.
Immediately the obscure ferment of a race-hatred, grown into a superstition, began to work in their bosoms, and they crowded about the house and the room-door with fearful whisperings.
Quotes with FERMENT (3)
...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?
The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly rate. To many in the ranks of the conservative and the devout, the new theories of geology and biology were delivering a series of hammer blows to mankind's self-regard. Geologists in particular seemed to have gone berserk, to have thrown off all sense of proper obeisance to their Maker... Mankind, it seemed, was now suddenly rather — dare one say i…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1980–2024).