foment

Plural: foments

Verb

Verb Forms: fomented, fomenting, foments

• To instigate or stir up (an undesirable feeling or situation).
• try to stir up public opinion
• bathe with warm water or medicated lotions
  • "His legs should be fomented"
• To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
• To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.

Noun

• Fomentation.

Examples

• A well-placed ’Q’ on a double letter score can FOMENT panic in any Words With Friends opponent.
• Foreign governments have tried to foment unrest.
• He was arrested for fomenting a riot; after all, it's bad enough being in a riot but starting one is much worse.

Synonyms

agitate, stir up, abet, actuate, beath, bring about, cheer, drive, egg on, encourage, engender, evoke, excite, foment, goad, grill, ignite, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, lash, motivate, motive, move, obligate, oblige, poultice, promote, prompt, provoke, push, rouse, send, set off, spark off, spur, spur on, stimulate, sting, stir, stoke, tempt, urge, whet, whip up

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