foment

foment is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
2. transitive verb. To cherish with heat; to foster.
3. transitive verb. 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.
4. verb. bathe with warm water or medicated lotions

   "His legs should be fomented"

5. verb. try to stir up public opinion

   Synonyms: agitate

Synonyms

agitate

Common word forms

foments, fomented, fomenter, fomenting

Words from these letters

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