leaven

leaven is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 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 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
2. noun. Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
3. transitive verb. To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
4. transitive verb. To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
5. noun. an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something

   "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"

   Synonyms: leavening

6. noun. a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

   Synonyms: leavening

7. verb. cause to puff up with a leaven

   "unleavened bread"

   Synonyms: prove, raise

Synonyms

leavening, prove, raise

Common word forms

leavens, leavened, leavener, leavening, leavenous, leavenless

Words from these letters

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