Associations to the word «Foment»

Wiktionary

FOMENT, verb. To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
FOMENT, verb. (medicine) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.
FOMENT, noun. Fomentation.

Dictionary definition

FOMENT, verb. Try to stir up public opinion.
FOMENT, verb. Bathe with warm water or medicated lotions; "His legs should be fomented".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin