Ferment vs. Foment — What's the Difference?

An agent, such as an enzyme, bacterium, or fungus, that brings about fermentation.

To arouse or incite (trouble, for example).

Fermentation.

To treat (the skin, for example) by fomentation.

A state of agitation or of turbulent change or development.

To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.

An agent that precipitates or is capable of precipitating such a state; a catalyst.

(medicine) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.

To undergo fermentation

Fomentation.

To develop in a turbulent or agitated way; seethe

To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

To cause to undergo fermentation

To cherish with heat; to foster.

To produce by or as if by fermentation

To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; - used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.

To make turbulent; excite or agitate

Fomentation.

To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

State of excitation; - perh. confused with ferment.

To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.

Try to stir up public opinion

Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.

Bathe with warm water or medicated lotions;

A state of agitation or of turbulent change.

A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.

A catalyst.

That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.

Intestine motion; heat; tumult; agitation.

A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.

To cause ferment or fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat.

To undergo fermentation; to be in motion, or to be excited into sensible internal motion, as the constituent particles of an animal or vegetable fluid; to work; to effervesce.

To be agitated or excited by violent emotions.

A state of agitation or turbulent change or development;

A substance capable of bringing about fermentation

A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol

A chemical phenomenon in which an organic molecule splits into simpler substances

Be in an agitated or excited state;

Work up into agitation or excitement;

Cause to undergo fermentation;

Go sour or spoil;