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Fermenting   /fərmˈɛntɪŋ/   Listen
Fermenting

noun
1.
A process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol.  Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, zymolysis, zymosis.



Ferment

verb
(past & past part. fermented; pres. part. fermenting)
1.
Be in an agitated or excited state.  "Her mind ferments"
2.
Work up into agitation or excitement.
3.
Cause to undergo fermentation.  Synonym: work.  "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats"
4.
Go sour or spoil.  Synonyms: sour, turn, work.  "The wine worked" , "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"



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"Fermenting" Quotes from Famous Books



... well that it may not be bitter; change the water very often; put a very little sugar and water to it just as you are going to use it; this is done to lighten and set it fermenting. As soon as you perceive it to be light, mix up with it new milk warmed, as if for other bread; put no water to it; about one pound or more of butter to about sixteen or eighteen cakes, and a white of two of egg, beat very light; mix all these together as light as you can; ...
— The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; • Charlotte Campbell Bury

... postman's heels, but no word arrived from the duchess. She was known to be assaulted from all sides by such applications: indeed her mail seems to have been very nearly as large as that of Mary Pickford or Theda Bara. Then, to his unspeakable anxiety, the miserable and fermenting Henry learned that all parcels sent to the duchess, unless marked with a password known only to her particular correspondents, were thrown into a closet by her porter to be reclaimed at convenience, or not at all. "I am ruined," cried ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley

... black and he had set his jaw in a way she didn't like at all. In nerving himself to go through the ordeal he had worked up his fermenting mind into ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

... of bleaching powder, and improperly called chloride of lime, which is used as a disinfectant in contagious diseases, in bleaching stuffs, and in the manufacture of paper from vegetable fibers, and in the manufacture of gelatine extracted from bones, as well as in fermenting molasses and in the manufacture of sugar from beet root. Sulphur is also used in the preparation of gunpowder and oil of vitriol, and in the manufacture of matches and cultivation of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 • Various

... breadfruit; and stood away east-by-south for the Horn, meaning to work up to Kingston, Jamaica. But this particular breadfruit was of a fattening natur', whether eaten or, as you may say, ab-sorbed into the system through a part of it getting down to the bilge and fermenting, and the gas of it working up through the vessel. Whereby, the breeze holding steady and no sail to trim for some days, the crew took it easy below, with naught to warn 'em, unless, maybe, 'twas a tight'ning o' the buttons. Whereby on the fifth ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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