Verb
foment (third-person singular simple present foments, present participle fomenting, simple past and past participle fomented)
- (transitive) To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
He was arrested for fomenting a riot; after all, it's bad enough being in a riot but starting one is much worse.
Foreign governments have tried to foment unrest.
January 7 2021, Peter Walker, “Tories urged to suspend politicians who likened US violence to anti-Brexit protests”, in The Guardian:Boris Johnson and senior Conservative ministers have vigorously condemned the violence in Washington, but have largely steered clear of condemning Trump for fomenting it.
- (medicine, transitive) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.
- Synonym: beath
1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, Norton, published 2005, page 1178:The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress's brow.
Translations
to incite or cause
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- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 煽動/煽动 (sin3 dung6)
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- Finnish: lietsoa (fi)
- French: fomenter (fr)
- German: fördern (de)
- Hebrew: עודד (he) (odéd), חרחר (khirkhér)
- Hungarian: szít (hu)
- Italian: fomentare (it)
- Japanese: 醸成する (ja) (じょうせいする, jōsei suru), 胎動する (ja) (たいどうする, taidō suru)
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- Norwegian: fyre opp under
- Portuguese: fomentar (pt)
- Russian: провоци́ровать (ru) (provocírovatʹ), побужда́ть (ru) (pobuždátʹ), подстрека́ть (ru) (podstrekátʹ), разжига́ть (ru) (razžigátʹ)
- Spanish: fomentar (es)
- Swedish: instigera, underblåsa (sv), nära (sv), befordra (sv)
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(medicine) to apply a poultice to