foment
IPA: fˈoʊmɛnt
noun
- Fomentation.
verb
- To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
- (medicine) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.
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Examples of "foment" in Sentences
- Fomenting fear and terror was the point.
- He fomented a battle between his two friends.
- Over the winter, Aristagoras continued to foment rebellion.
- Koresh tried to foment an armed uprising against the state.
- Jon was accused of looking on or of fomenting the discontent.
- He also fomented the reorganization of the armed forces structure.
- The Dutch continued to foment trouble on one pretext or the other.
- She is trying to foment trouble in connection with the contact ban.
- It is the product of an administrator, who wants to foment an edit war.
- The rebels conspired to foment revolution in order to disunite the government.
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