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