Usually means: Stirring up trouble or unrest.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word fomentation:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. fomentation: Merriam-Webster
  2. fomentation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fomentation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fomentation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fomentation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fomentation, fomentation: Wordnik
  7. fomentation: Wiktionary
  8. fomentation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fomentation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. fomentation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. fomentation: Dictionary.com
  12. Fomentation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Fomentation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. fomentation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. fomentation: Rhymezone
  16. fomentation: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. Fomentation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. fomentation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. fomentation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. fomentation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. fomentation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fomentation: Legal dictionary

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. fomentation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fomentation: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. fomentation: Medical dictionary
  8. Fomentation: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fomentation)

noun:  The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain by relaxing the skin, or of discussing (dispersing) tumours.
noun:  A lotion or poultice applied to a diseased or injured part of the body.
noun:  Encouragement; excitation; instigation.

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