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foment

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
foment /fə(ʊ)ˈmɛnt/

▶verb

1 instigate or stir up (revolution or strife).

2 archaic bathe (a part of the body) with warm or medicated lotions.

– derivatives
fomentation noun,
fomenter noun.

– origin ME: from Fr. fomenter, from late L. fomentare, from L. fomentum ‘poultice, lotion’.

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