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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol;
[syn: zymosis, zymolysis, fermentation, fermenting, ferment]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ferment \Fer*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fermented; p. pr. & vb. n. Fermenting.] [L. fermentare, fermentatum: cf. F. fermenter. See Ferment, n.] To cause ferment or fermentation in; to set in motion; to excite internal emotion in; to heat. [1913 Webster] Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fermenting n 1: a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol [syn: zymosis, zymolysis, fermentation, fermenting, ferment]