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fermenting

fermenting is the present participle and gerund of ferment.

Meaning of ferment

Verb

ferment (third-person singular simple present ferments, present participle fermenting, simple past and past participle fermented)

  1. To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
    • The cleanup job would turn out to be possibly second only to body-recovery duty in terms of being a job that nobody wanted to get assigned to. Imagine, for a moment, a thick soup of oil, paper, ink, clothing, raw meat and other fresh provisions, and worse, that had all been left to collect together...2020 November 18, Drachinifel, 6:21 from the start, in The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 2 - Up She Rises!, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2022
  2. To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
    • Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC

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Words formed from fermenting

Questions about fermenting

What is fermenting the present participle and gerund of?
Fermenting is the present participle and gerund of ferment.

Words near fermenting in the dictionary

  1. fermenters
  2. fermentescible
  3. fermenteth
  4. fermentic
  5. fermenties
  6. fermenting
  7. fermentitious
  8. fermentive
  9. fermentological
  10. fermentologist
  11. fermentologists

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