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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



... without doubt, intended to sting if possible, their abject natures into sensibility on the subject of their wrongs, to galvanize their rotting souls back to manhood, and to make their base and sieve-like minds capable of receiving and retaining, at least, a single fermenting idea. And when Vesey was thereupon asked "What can we do?" he knew by that token that the sharp point of his spear had pierced the slavish apathy of ages of oppression, and that thenceforth light would find its red and ...
— Right on the Scaffold, or The Martyrs of 1822 - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 7 • Archibald H. Grimke
... has with juice of berries in it to make her eyebrows black; crystal vats of fermenting grain; beautiful cups and vessels. Her house is of the colour of lime; there are rushes for beds, and many silken coverings and blue cloaks; red gold is there, and bright drinking-horns. Her sunny house is beside Loch ...
— Gods and Fighting Men • Lady I. A. Gregory
... said the other, with a genial smile at the fermenting Mr. Kybird. "I'm as well as ever I was. Illness is a serious thing, Smith, but it is not ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... fertilizers are used to help out, the manure may be decreased in proportion. If possible, take it from the heap in which it has been rotting, and spread evenly over the soil immediately before plowing. If actively fermenting, it will lose by being exposed to wind and sun. If green, or in cold weather, it may be spread and left until plowing is done. When plowing, it should be completely covered under, or it will give all kinds of trouble in sowing ...
— Home Vegetable Gardening • F. F. Rockwell
... revelling—a world in a drop of water. And the sharp sword of Knowledge cleft the deep vault, and shone therein, where the basilisk killed, and the animal's body was dissolved in a death-bringing vapour: its claw extended from the fermenting wine-cask; its eyes were air, that burnt when the fresh wind ...
— Pictures of Sweden • Hans Christian Andersen


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