FERMENT meaning: Chemical breakdown by microorganisms, anaerobically

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General (26 matching dictionaries)

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Ferment, ferment: Wordnik
ferment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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ferment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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ferment: Online Etymology Dictionary
ferment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Ferment (album), Ferment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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ferment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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ferment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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ferment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

ferment: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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ferment: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ferment)

▸ verb:  To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
▸ verb:  To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
▸ noun:  Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
▸ noun:  A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
▸ noun:  A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
▸ noun:  A catalyst.

Similar:

sour, agitation, unrest, turn, fermentation, zymosis, zymolysis, brew, fermentate, work, more...

Opposite:

fermentate

Types:

alcohol, vinegar, yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut, tempeh, miso, kefir, more...

Phrases:

fibrin ferment, lactic ferment, butyric ferment, re ferment, ferment oils, more...

Adjectives:

intellectual, political, great, social, revolutionary, religious, general, popular, cultural, proteolytic, considerable

Colors:

amber, burgundy, olive, mustard, rust, more...