Foment is valid Scrabble Word

Is foment a scrabble word?
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6 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for FOMENT in dictionary:

VERB:

to foster or promote
instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action)
bathe (a part of the body) with warm or medicated lotions.
encourage or stir up (trouble)
To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.
To cherish with heat; to foster.
To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors.
try to stir up public opinion
bathe with warm water or medicated lotions

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to promote the development of

Words related to FOMENT

fomentation16 fomentations17 fomented14 fomenter13 fomenters14 fomenting15 foments12

Words that contain FOMENT

foments12 fomented14 fomenter13 fomenters14 fomenting15 fomentation16 fomentations17

How to use FOMENT in a sentence

It appears a kind of insulting upon their misfortune, and is apt to foment their grief.
So he began by false whispers and malicious hints to foment jealousies and distrust among them.
I was no more than one-and-twenty when I first began to make political speeches in public, and to endeavor to foment disquietude and discontent in the city.
The emperor found some little consolation in this growing disunion, and did all in his power to foment it.
No foreign force could levy armies or foment uprisings in the name of independence.
Nairne found two men issuing papers from a printing press to foment sedition and sent them down to Quebec to stand their trial for treason.
They are also fond of parading on that day to incite riot, and of holding meetings to stir up discontent and to foment rebellion among the laboring classes.
The tories perceived his disgust, and did not fail to foment his jealousy against their adversaries, which was confirmed by a fresh effort of the whigs in relation to a militia.
The earl of Rochester had contributed to foment the troubles of the kingdom by encouraging the factions which had been imported from England.
He promised the Consul that he would fight with the Americans and not attempt to foment a revolution against the United States.

In other countries it can sometimes be the interest of politicians to foment and declare war.
They foretold also that Bismarck would not be content with a position of less power, and there were many ready to watch for and foment the differences which must arise.
Dorr and his friends and foment domestic insurrection.
But before that they tried to foment a regular mutiny, the colony being by that time well under way, and Egede had to arrest and punish the leaders.
With an eye to this end he, with other Capitalists, began in 1892 to foment a political agitation in Johannesburg against the Republic.
Christ came to preach peace, and not to foment strife.
Catharine contrived to foment a revolt against her protege the khan, and then, very kindly, marched an army into the Crimea for his relief.

Similar words containing FOM without suffix ent

fomo9 fomes10 fomite11 foments12 fomites12 fomented14 fomenter13 fomenters14 fomenting15 infomania14 infomanias15 fomentation16 infomercial18 fomentations17 infomercials19

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