meaning of foment
1. To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
2. To cherish with heat; to foster.
3. To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
4. bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be
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Related Words
foment | fomentation | fomented | fomenter | fomenting |
