Definitions
To undergo chemical change by fermentation; also unrest or excitement.
Word origin
From Middle English ferment, from Middle French ferment, from Latin fermentāre (“to leaven, ferment”), from fermentum (“substance causing fermentation”), possibly from contraction of *fervimentum, from fervēre. See also fervent.
Used in a sentence
“Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.”
“Pleas'd have I wander'd thro' your rough domain; / Trod the pure virgin-ſnows, myſelf as pure; / Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burſt; / Or ſeen the deep fermenting tempeſt brew'd, / In the grim evening ſky.”
“Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.”
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