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leavened

leavened

3.5
Bread made light and soft because it has yeast or baking powder
  • adjective
  • /ˈlɛvənd/
translation icon : fermentado
  • You just ate hacha Puri, a cheese filled leavened bread topped with a soft boiled egg and butter.

Examples

  • You just say Hachapuri, a cheese filled leavened bread topped with a soft boiled egg and butter.

  • These were full of meat cut up into pieces, and there were great loaves of leavened bread fastened with skewers to the pieces of meat.

  • Hachapuri is a delicious leavened bread filled with cheese and often served with a runny egg on top.

  • In many cultures, leavened bread is a staple food, providing a light and fluffy texture that people enjoy.

  • The chef demonstrated how to make leavened bread by using yeast to help the dough rise and become airy.

Synonyms

yeasted
vsleavened
3.7

Contains tiny living things that make bread dough rise and help make beer

is made light and porous using any leavening agent, not only yeast

Antonyms

unleavened
1 6.5

Food made without yeast or baking powder so it does not rise

How Light

airy
6 3.4
light
79 1.0
leavened
3.5
unleavened
1 6.5
dense
28 3.9

Surface Forms

leavened positive

Morphology

leavened = leaven (transparent) = leaven + ed

Formed from the verb 'leaven' plus the regular past-participle/adjectival suffix '-ed', so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

The word leavened comes from the Latin word levare, which means 'to raise' or 'lift' and is the same idea as the English word 'raise'. So a leavened dough is one that has been 'raised' by yeast or baking powder, making the bread light and full of small holes.