to ferment
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5.5
- verb
- /fərˈmɛnt/
- Specialized
:
fermentar
- Food was brought for them: barley bread, fermented mare's milk, baked fish, and dried strips of pig meat.
- fermented bean curd
- fermented bean
- fermented soybeans
They're basically sort of dangling, fermenting bags of food.
- They're basically sort of dangling, fermenting bags of food.
- So it eats off the skin and then the bean ferments in its stomach.
- Second is to have some fermented foods every day.
- If she wants to sprout and ferment and freeze or freeze dry or whatever it is.
- And then you pour in your yeast and you ferment that for a week.
- A fruit falls from a tree, lands on the ground, and it naturally starts to ferment.
- So they they ferment these these food products that pass through undigested into the large intestine.
- It was, it didn't have a focus and now we just sort of ferment anything we can and trying to take that to a commercial level.
Examples
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And you brought this array of things with you to show me how easy it is to ferment things in your own home, I guess.
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Even their national drink, called airag, is made of fermented mare's milk.
Academic text (2004) -
Also, you can ferment almost any plant to make alcohol.
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Yeah, well, it takes this stuff a while to ferment.
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And then you pour in your yeast and you ferment that for a week.
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Not many of us hunt or forage or butcher, process or ferment or cook our own food.
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This is how the ancients fermented their wine.
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We've been fermenting it out back since we got here.
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So they would take the grain and ferment it and make barley malt, for example, which English people still like to drink quite a bit without due to this history.
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You can easily ferment fruit at home to create delicious homemade wine.
Synonyms
95
3.0
To make tea or coffee by leaving it in hot water
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Etymology
To ferment comes from the Latin fervere 'to boil' and the old noun fermentum, so it keeps the image of things bubbling and changing. That is why to ferment is to let food or drink undergo that natural change.