Usually means: Incites or stirs up trouble.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word foments:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. foments: Merriam-Webster
  2. foments: Collins English Dictionary
  3. foments: Vocabulary.com
  4. foments: Wordnik
  5. foments: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. foments: Wiktionary
  7. foments: Dictionary.com
  8. foments: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. foments: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foments: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See foment as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (foment)

verb:  (transitive) To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
verb:  (medicine, transitive) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.
noun:  Fomentation.
▸ Also see foment

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