foment

v. stir up; instigate; stimulate; apply water or a medicated liquid (to part of the body)

---

Verb
1. try to stir up public opinion
(synonym) agitate, stir up
(hypernym) provoke, stimulate
(hyponym) rumpus
(derivation) fomentation, instigation
2. bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be fomented"
(hypernym) bathe, bath
(derivation) fomentation

v. a.
1. to apply warm lotions to
گرم پاني کے تريڑے دينا, سيکنا, تتارنا
2. abet
اکسانا, سہارا دينا, پچ کرنا, بھڑکانا, سلگانا, برانگيختہ کرنا, اشتعالک دينا
foment dissension
پھوٹ ڈالنا, جھگڑا يا لڑائي کروانا
foment mischeif
فساد اٹھانا, ات پادھ اٹھانا

Synonyms and related words:
abate, abet, advance, agitate, agitation, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, annoy, appease, arouse, assuage, awake, awaken, benumb, blow the coals, blow up, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bustle, call forth, call up, chafe, churn, commotion, conturbation, cook, cultivate, cushion, deaden, deaden the pain, diminish, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, dull, ease, ease matters, ebullition, egg on, electric-heat, embroilment, encourage, enkindle, enrage, excite, excitement, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, fire, fire up, flame, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, forward, foster, frenzy, fume, further, fuss, galvanize, gas-heat, give relief, goad, heat, heat up, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, hubbub, hurly-burly, impassion, incense, incite, inflame, infuriate, initiate, inquietude, inspire, instigate, jitters, jumpiness, key up, kindle, lather up, lay, lessen, light the fuse, light up, lull, madden, maelstrom, malaise, mitigate, moil, mollify, motivate, move, mull, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nettle, numb, nurse, nurture, overexcite, overheat, pad, palliate, perturbation, pique, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, preheat, promote, prompt, provoke, put up to, raise, rally, recook, reduce, reheat, relieve, restlessness, roil, rouse, rout, row, salve, seethe, seething, set, set astir, set fire to, set on, set on fire, sic on, slacken, slake, soften, soothe, spur, start, steam, steam up, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, stoke up, stupe, subdue, summon up, superheat, swirl, tepefy, tickle, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, turn on, twitter, unease, unrest, upset, urge, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm over, warm the blood, warm up, whet, whip up, work into, work up
  

foment /fou'ment/

• ngoại động từ
  • (nghĩa bóng) xúi bẩy, xúi giục; khích (mối bất hoà, sự phiến loạn, sự bất mãn...)
  • (y học) chườm nóng

(C) 2007 www.TừĐiểnTiếngViệt.net