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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Examples of "leaven" in Sentences
- It is the leaven of modern knowledge.
- Baking soda could be used for leavening.
- Most bread consumed in the West is leavened.
- Leaven is the most important when baking bread.
- A little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough.
- Leaven plays the greatest role in its induction.
- In place, I think this is a leavening sentence structure.
- The flour and leavening agent are mixed separately and then added.
- The exposure of leaven and leavened bread shows a chemical reaction.
- A simple technique for leavening bread is the use of gas producing chemicals.
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