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foment

verb
🔊/fəˈment/
🔊/fəʊˈment/
 (formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they foment
🔊/fəˈment/
🔊/fəʊˈment/
he / she / it foments
🔊/fəˈments/
🔊/fəʊˈments/
past simple fomented
🔊/fəˈmentɪd/
🔊/fəʊˈmentɪd/
past participle fomented
🔊/fəˈmentɪd/
🔊/fəʊˈmentɪd/
-ing form fomenting
🔊/fəˈmentɪŋ/
🔊/fəʊˈmentɪŋ/
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  1. foment something to create trouble or violence or make it worse挑起，激起，煽动（事端或暴力） synonym incite
    • They accused him of fomenting political unrest.他们指控他煽动政治动乱。🔊🔊
    Topics War and conflictc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryFoment is used with these nouns as the object:
    • coup
    • rebellion
    • revolution
    • …
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    Word Originlate Middle English (originally meaning to bathe with warm or medicated lotions): from French fomenter, from late Latin fomentare, from Latin fomentum ‘poultice, lotion’, from fovere ‘to heat, cherish’.