leaven

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

leavens

1.
(countable, uncountable)Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
2.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative) Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
3.
(Judaism, countable, uncountable)Chametz.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

leavens

V_ing/Gerund

leavening

V_ed/pp

leavenedleven

1.
(transitive)To add a leavening agent.
Yeast is used to leaven bread, making it rise during baking.
2.
(transitive)To cause to rise by fermentation.
3.
(figuratively, transitive)To temper an action, decision, attitude, characteristic, etc.
4.
(figuratively, transitive)To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
The comedian's jokes helped leaven the atmosphere during the serious meeting.
Her optimism seemed to leaven the otherwise tense environment.
5.
To rise or become larger; to prove.

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Đồng nghĩa

leavening agentraising agent

Cùng gốc / liên quan

leavenousleavenlessof the same leavennatural leavenyeast

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English levayn, borrowed from Old French levain, from *levāmen, a noun based on Latin levō (raise).