Ferment

Verb

 * 1) To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
 * 2) To stir up, agitate, cause unrest.

Noun

 * 1) Something, such as a yeast that causes fermentation.
 * 2) A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
 * 3) A catalyst.

Adverbs for Ferment
putridly; alcoholically; microscopically; violently; subtly; tumultuously; politically; irresistibly; actively.

Synonyms for Ferment
seethe, boil, bubble, concoct, heat, roil, leaven, raise, stir, fret, agitate, excite, embroil.

Antonyms for Ferment
calm, quiet, soothe, dampen, cool, repress

Thesaurus
acetification, acetify, acidification, acidify, acidulate, acidulation, ado, agent, agitate, agitation, ailment, alkalify, alkalization, alkalize, alterant, alterative, alterer, arouse, bacteria, beat, beat up, blow the coals, blubber, bluster, bobbery, boil, boil over, boiling, borate, bother, botheration, brawl, brew, broil, brouhaha, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, bubbliness, bubbling, burble, burst, bustle, buttermilk, cacophony, carbon dioxide, carbonate, carbonation, catalysis, catalyst, catalytic agent, catalyze, chaos, chemical, chemicalization, chlorinate, churn, churn up, clamor, commotion, conturbation, convulse, convulsion, disarrange, discompose, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturb, disturbance, dudgeon, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, eddy, effervesce, effervescence, effervescency, electrolysis, electrolyze, embroilment, enzyme, excite, excitement, fan, fan the flame, fanaticism, feed the fire, feery-fary, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgetiness, fidgets, fire, fit, fizz, fizzle, flap, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteration, flutteriness, foam, foaming, foment, fomentation, foofaraw, frenzy, fret, froth, frothiness, frothing, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, fussiness, guggle, gurgle, heat, heat up, high dudgeon, hiss, homopolymerize, hubbub, huff, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, hurry, hurry-scurry, hydrate, hydrogenate, hydrogenation, hydroxylate, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, innovationist, innovator, inquietude, instigate, introducer, isomerism, isomerize, jitters, jumpiness, leaven, leavening, maelstrom, malaise, metamerism, metamerization, miff, modificator, modifier, moil, mother, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nettle, nitrate, nitration, outcry, oxidation, oxidization, oxidize, paddle, pandemonium, passion, pell-mell, pepsin, pepsinate, peroxidize, perturb, perturbate, perturbation, pet, phosphatization, phosphatize, pique, plop, polymerism, polymerization, polymerize, position isomerism, pother, precursor, provoke, put up to, racket, rage, raise, rally, reduce, reduction, restiveness, restlessness, rile, ripple, rise, roil, roughen, rouse, rout, row, ruckus, ruffle, rumple, rumpus, saturization, scramble, seethe, seething, set on, shake, shake up, sic on, simmer, smolder, soda, sour, sparkle, spasm, spumescence, spurt, stew, stir, stir the embers, stir up, storminess, sulfate, sulfatize, sulfonate, sweat, swirl, swirling, tempestuousness, tickle, tiff, to-do, transformer, transmogrifier, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumult, tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, turn sour, twitter, unease, unquiet, unrest, upheaval, uproar, upset, upturn, vinegar, vortex, whet, whip, whip up, whirl, whisk, wildness, work, work up, working, yeast, yeastiness, zeal, zealousness

Etymology
From fermentare: < fermentum: < fervere:. Confer French ferment:, see also fervent:.

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Danish: gære, fermentere
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, panna käymään
 * German:
 * Hungarian: erjeszt


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: rūgt
 * Russian: квасить
 * Swedish: jäsa,
 * Welsh: eplesu


 * Dutch: stoken
 * Finnish:, , kuohuttaa


 * German: ,
 * Italian:

Noun

 * Dutch:


 * German: Gärmittel


 * Finnish:

Anagrams

 * fretmen