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ferments

ferments is the plural of ferment.

ferments is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ferment.

Meaning of ferment

Noun

ferment (plural ferments)

  1. Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
  2. A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
    • Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation
  3. A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
    • A Rage of Pleaſure madden'd every Breaſt, / Down to the loweſt Lees the Ferment ran: [...]1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza XXX, page 56
  4. A catalyst.

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Questions about ferments

What is ferments the plural of?
Ferments is the plural of ferment.

Words near ferments in the dictionary

  1. fermentology
  2. fermentome
  3. fermentomes
  4. fermentor
  5. fermentors
  6. ferments
  7. fermenty
  8. fermeture
  9. fermetures
  10. Fermeuse
  11. fermi

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