Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
- 2transitive verb
To cherish with heat; to foster.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4verb
bathe with warm water or medicated lotions
"His legs should be fomented"
- 5verb
try to stir up public opinion
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