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To foment something is to stir it up so that trouble grows — usually unrest, rebellion, or hatred. Newspapers say a group fomented violence or fomented opposition to the government. It is a formal, slightly old-fashioned verb; you would not tell a friend don’t foment. You would say don’t stir up trouble. The surprising history: it comes from a Latin word for a warm . Doctors used to foment a sore place — put a warm, wet cloth on it. That “warm it up” meaning slid into “warm up bad feeling.” Today the medical sense is rare; the trouble sense is the one you will read.
煽動、挑起（衝突或反抗）
組成From Old French fomenter, from Latin fōmentum (a lotion), from fovēre (to heat, to keep warm).
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- fomentationthe older noun: a warm wet cloth on the skin, and later the act of stirring up trouble
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fomentverb/fəʊˈmɛnt/
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To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
- He was arrested for fomenting a riot; after all, it's bad enough being in a riot but starting one is much worse.
- Foreign governments have tried to foment unrest.
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medicinesciencesTo apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.
- Sties in the eye are irritating and disfiguring. Foment with warm water; at night apply a bread-and-milk poultice.
- The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress's brow.
fomentnoun/fəʊˈmɛnt/
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Fomentation.
- He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。