Found 2 items, similar to foment.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: foment foment v 1: try to stir up public opinion [syn: agitate, stir up] 2: bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; “His legs should be fomented”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Foment Foment \Fo"ment\, n. 1. Fomentation. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. State of excitation; -- perh. confused with ferment. He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up. --Julian Ralph. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Foment \Fo*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fomented; p. pr. & vb. n. Fomenting.] [F. fomenter, fr. L. fomentare, fr. fomentum (for fovimentum) a warm application or lotion, fr. fovere to warm or keep warm; perh. akin to Gr. ? to roast, and E. bake.] 1. To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid. [1913 Webster] 2. To cherish with heat; to foster. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors. --Locke. [1913 Webster] But quench the choler you foment in vain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Exciting and fomenting a religious rebellion. --Southey. [1913 Webster]