Verb

(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.

Verb

(generat)

To bring into being; give rise to.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 9, author=Jonathan Wilson, work=the Guardian

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

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To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.

To procreate, beget.

(mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.

To appear or occur; be generated.

* 1883 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Three Strangers)

Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.