Crossword-Solution: FOMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Foment | v. t. | To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid. |
| Foment | v. t. | To cherish with heat; to foster. |
| Foment | v. t. | To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors. |
We have 47 clues for the answer “FOMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| encourage or stir up (trouble) | 1 answer |
| Stir up, as a revolt | 1 answer |
| Promote growth | 1 answer |
| Instigate trouble | 1 answer |
| INSTIGATE conduct | 1 answer |
| FOSTER conduct | 1 answer |
| Encourage a riot | 1 answer |
| APPLY warmth to | 1 answer |
| Stir up, as trouble | 2 answers |
| make the fire | 6 answers |
| Stir up trouble. | 7 answers |
| Make trouble | 9 answers |
| feed the flames | 10 answers |
| winterise | 11 answers |
| BATHE WITH WARM WATER OR MEDICATED LOTIONS | 11 answers |
| Whip up | 11 answers |
| raise the temperature | 14 answers |
| AGGRESS | 17 answers |
| set fire to | 21 answers |
| Whet | 24 answers |
| Brew | 25 answers |
| Liquefy | 28 answers |
| touch off | 31 answers |
| wake | 32 answers |
| Lend a Hand | 32 answers |
| Foster | 35 answers |
| Fire (up) | 35 answers |
| institute | 36 answers |
| Bathe | 38 answers |
| Tend | 39 answers |
| Stir up | 41 answers |
| Ignite | 42 answers |
| Ferment | 42 answers |
| bestir | 42 answers |
| Instigate | 45 answers |
| not improve matters | 46 answers |
| Abet | 47 answers |
| Inflame | 56 answers |
| Rouse | 60 answers |
| Kindle | 63 answers |
| Warm | 65 answers |
| Agitate | 70 answers |
| Stimulate | 71 answers |
| Incite | 76 answers |
| Aid | 77 answers |
| Arouse. | 81 answers |
| Provoke | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with FOMENT (5)
The presence of the uncanny creatures of the court of mystery had become known to the Malay and he used this knowledge as an argument to foment discord and mutiny in the ignorant and superstitious crew under his command.
She hastened 'twixt two stones the herb to pound, Then took it, and the healing juice exprest: With this did she foment the stripling's wound, And, even to the hips, his waist and breast; And (with such virtue was the salve endued) It stanched his life-blood, and his strength renewed; XXV And into him infused such force again, That he could mount the horse the swain conveyed; But good Medoro would not leave the plain Till he in earth had seen his master laid.
This malignant liquor was compounded, by the engineer who invented it, of two ingredients, which are, gall and copperas; by its bitterness and venom to suit, in some degree, as well as to foment, the genius of the combatants.
The younger Victor mentions the mechanical genius of Valentinian, nova arma meditari fingere terra seu limo simulacra.] That prudent emperor, who diligently practised the wise maxims of Diocletian, was studious to foment and excite the intestine divisions of the tribes of Germany.
That prudent emperor, who diligently practised the wise maxims of Diocletian, was studious to foment and excite the intestine divisions of the tribes of Germany.
Quotes with FOMENT (3)
... remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness.
No one wants to occupy a black hole of sadness and despair or slip on the tight rope that separates sanity from insanity, and reside in a vortex devoid of reality. I entered the world as a freeman and desire to escape a state of existential vertigo. I yearn to discover a synthesizing spirit of my being and hold my head high, free of doubt, and devoid of fear. I wish to foment the cerebral energy to stave off premature destruction and forevermore blunt an intolerable state of anguish.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 41 times in crossword archives (1964–2024).