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Rebellion vs Ferment - What's the difference?

rebellion | ferment |

As nouns the difference between rebellion and ferment

is that rebellion is armed resistance to an established government or ruler while ferment is something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.

As a verb ferment is

to react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

rebellion

English

(wikipedia rebellion)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
    • The government is doing its best to stop rebellion in the country.
  • (countable) Defiance]] of authority or control; the act of [[rebel, rebelling.
    • Having a tattoo was Mathilda's personal rebellion against her parents.
  • (countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
    • The army general led a successful rebellion and became president of the country.

    Related terms

    *rebel *rebellious

    Antonyms

    *(defiance of authority or control) obedience, submission

    ferment

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
  • To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.
  • A state of agitation or of turbulent change.
  • * Rogers
    • Subdue and cool the ferment of desire.
  • * Walpole
    • The nation is in a ferment .
  • A gentle internal motion of the constituent parts of a fluid; fermentation.
  • * Thomson
    • Down to the lowest lees the ferment ran.
  • A catalyst.

    • Quotations

    ; state of agitation * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 104 *: Clad in a Persian-Renaissance gown and a widow's tiara of white batiste, Mrs Thoroughfare, in all the ferment of a Marriage-Christening , left her chamber on vapoury autumn day and descending a few stairs, and climbing a few others, knocked a trifle brusquely at her son's wife's door.

    See also

    * foment

    References

    * * * (Fermentation)

    Anagrams

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