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re-ferment

re-ferment is the alternative spelling of referment.

Meaning of referment

Verb

referment (third-person singular simple present referments, present participle refermenting, simple past and past participle refermented)

  1. To ferment again.
    • In the Low Countries, I’d developed a taste for refermented fruit beers.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 42

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Forms of re-ferment

third-person singular presentre-ferments
present participlere-fermenting
past participlere-fermented
pastre-fermented

Origin of re-ferment

From re- + ferment.

Questions about re-ferment

What is re-ferment the alternative spelling of?
Re-ferment is the alternative spelling of referment.

Words near re-ferment in the dictionary

  1. re-expressing
  2. re-extend
  3. re-extended
  4. re-extending
  5. re-extends
  6. re-ferment
  7. re-fermented
  8. re-fermenting
  9. re-ferments
  10. re-file
  11. re-form

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-ferment (page history and authors); referment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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