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: June 11, 2024
\FOH-ment\ verb
What It Means
To foment something, such as hostility or opposition, is to cause it, or try to cause it, to grow or develop. Foment is used synonymously with incite.
// Rumors that the will was a fake fomented distrust between the two families.
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