leaven

Các nghĩa

1. thêm chất làm nở

   To add a leavening agent.

   transitive

   Yeast is used to leaven bread, making it rise during baking.

2. làm lên men

   To cause to rise by fermentation.

   transitive

3. làm dịu bớt

   To temper an action, decision, attitude, characteristic, etc.

   figuratively · transitive

   Duke. No more euasion: We haue with a leauen'd, and prepared choice Proceeded to you; therefore take your honors:[...]

   “A tinge of Jewish blood is not a bad thing. It leavens the”—she looked at him—“stolid stupidity of the ordinary Englishman.”

4. làm nhiễm, làm hư hỏng

   To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

   figuratively · transitive

   The comedian's jokes helped leaven the atmosphere during the serious meeting.

   Her optimism seemed to leaven the otherwise tense environment.

   With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he levens also his prayer.

5. nở ra, phồng lên

   To rise or become larger; to prove.

Dạng khác

• leavens present, singular, third-person
• leavening participle, present
• leavened participle, past

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