Foment vs Galvanise - What's the difference?
foment | galvanise |
To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
(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,
(chiefly British) To shock or stimulate into sudden activity.
(chiefly British) To coat with rust-resistant zinc.
(chemistry) (chiefly British): To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means.
As verbs the difference between foment and galvanise
is that foment is to incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate while galvanise is chiefly British To shock or stimulate into sudden activity.foment
English
Verb
(en verb)- He was arrested for fomenting a riot; after all, it's bad enough being in a riot but starting one is much worse.
- The maid had entered with us, and began once more to foment the bruise upon her mistress's brow.