Usually means: Substance causing dough to rise.
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  1. leaven: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. leaven: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leaven: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leaven: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leaven: Vocabulary.com
  6. Leaven, leaven: Wordnik
  7. leaven: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. leaven: Wiktionary
  9. leaven: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. leaven: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. leaven: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Leaven, leaven: Dictionary.com
  13. leaven (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Leaven, The Leaven: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Leaven: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. leaven: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. leaven: Rhymezone
  18. Leaven: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. leaven: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. leaven: Free Dictionary
  21. leaven: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. leaven: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. leaven: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. leaven: Legal dictionary

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  1. leaven: Encyclopedia

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Leaven: Easton Bible
  2. Leaven: Smith's Bible Dictionary

(Note: See leavened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
noun:  (figurative) Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
verb:  (transitive) To add a leavening agent.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to rise by fermentation.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To temper an action or decision.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
verb:  To rise or become larger; to prove.

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