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Definitions for Leaven

[1] a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
[2] fermented dough reserved for producing fermentation in a new batch of dough.
[3] an element that produces an altering or transforming influence.
[4] to add leaven to (dough or batter) and cause to rise.
[5] to permeate with an altering or transforming element.
[6] any substance that produces fermentation in dough or batter, such as yeast, and causes it to rise
[7] a piece of such a substance kept to ferment a new batch of dough
[8] an agency or influence that produces a gradual change
[9] to cause fermentation in (dough or batter)
[10] to pervade, causing a gradual change, esp with some moderating or enlivening influence

Words related to Leaven

lighten, infuse, imbue, raise, affect, cause, change, ferment, activate, catalyze, pepsinate

Words nearby Leaven

leave well enough alone, leave without a leg to stand on, leave word, leave-taking, leaved, leaven, leavening, leavenworth, leaves, leaves of grass, leaving

Origin of Leaven

1300–50; Middle English levain < Anglo-French, Old French levain < Vulgar Latin *levāmen, equivalent to Latin levā(re ) to raise + -men deverbal noun suffix (probably not continuous with Latin levāmen means of alleviating, solace)

Word origin for Leaven

C14: via Old French ultimately from Latin levāmen relief, (hence, raising agent, leaven), from levāre to raise

Synonyms for Leaven

lighten, raise, pepsinate