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Pronunciation: [fˈə͡ʊmənt] (IPA)

Foment means to incite or stir up something, usually negative or violent, such as a rebellion or protest. Some synonyms for this word include instigate, provoke, agitate, incite, excite, and encourage. Other synonyms that could be used are inflame, stimulate, trigger, spur, and promote. These words are all similar in meaning to foment, and can be used interchangeably in certain contexts. It is important to choose the most appropriate synonym that conveys the intended meaning in order to help readers understand what you are trying to say.
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What are the opposite words for foment?

The antonyms for the word "foment" are "suppress," "discourage," and "deter." When one is trying to suppress something, he or she is preventing it from happening, which is the opposite of "foment" where one is trying to incite or instigate something. "Discourage" refers to the action that reduces the enthusiasm or willingness of someone, whereas "foment" is about encouraging or promoting enthusiasm. Lastly, "deter" suggests that something is restraining or preventing something from happening, which is contrasting to "foment" where someone is pushing for something to happen. Knowing the antonyms of "foment" helps us to understand the extent of its meaning and how it differs from other actions.

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Usage examples for Foment

In a subtle and underhand way he contrived to favor and foment the disturbance.
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy
The Japanese Gendarmes have forbidden the singing of several of the great church hymns in mission churches because they insist that these are hymns of Freedom; that they foment what the Japanese call "Dangerous Ideas."
"Flash-lights from the Seven Seas"
William L. Stidger Commentator: Bishop Francis J. McConnell
On the other hand, the English Leicestrians did their best to foment discord in the Provinces.
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009

Famous quotes with Foment

  • If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
    Abigail Adams
  • The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
    Carol Gilligan
  • Before Kuhn, most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth's temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed.
    Stephen Jay Gould
  • Burgess had been a schoolteacher (like William Golding, author of ) and evidently sensed a stirring of revolt among the youth of his country and elsewhere in the West, a revolt with which—as a deeply unconventional man who felt himself to be an outsider however wealthy or famous he became, and who drank deep at the well of resentment as well as of spirituous liquors—he felt some sympathy and might even have helped in a small way to foment. And yet, as a man who was also deeply steeped in literary culture and tradition, he understood the importance of the shift of cultural authority from the old to the young and was very far from sanguine about its effects. He thought that the shift would lead to a hell on earth and the destruction of all that he valued....Burgess intuited with almost prophetic acuity both the nature and characteristics of youth culture when left to its own devices, and the kind of society that might result when that culture became predominant.
    Anthony Burgess
  • Diogenes maintains that tyrants do not bring about revolutions in cities, and foment wars civil or foreign for the sake of a simple diet of vegetables and fruits, but for costly meats and the delicacies of the table. And, strange to say, Epicurus, the defender of pleasure, in all his books speaks of nothing but vegetables and fruits; and he says that we ought to live on cheap food because the preparation of sumptuous banquets of flesh involves great care and suffering, and greater pains attend the search for such delicacies than pleasures the consumption of them. … Persons who feed on flesh want also gratifications not found in flesh. But they who adopt a simple diet do not look for flesh. … The soul greatly exults when you are content with little: you have the world beneath your feet, and can exchange all its power, its feasts, and its lusts, the objects for which men rake money together, for common food, and make up for them all with a sack-cloth shirt.
    Jerome

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