Foment vs Forment - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between foment and forment

is that foment is to incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate while forment is misspelling of lang=en.

(en verb)

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.

(medicine) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.

* 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange , Norton (2005), page 1178,

The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress's brow.

* fomentation

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