foment
- IPA[fə(ʊ)ˈmɛnt]
英式
- instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action);bathe (a part of the body) with warm or medicated lotions.
verb: foment, 3rd person present: foments, gerund or present participle: fomenting, past tense: fomented, past participle: fomented
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action) they accused him of fomenting political unrest
- 2. archaic bathe (a part of the body) with warm or medicated lotions.
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- IPA[fōˈment]
美式
- instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action): they accused him of fomenting political unrest
Oxford American Dictionary