to leaven

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To add a leavening agent
To temper an action or decision

With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get.

Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods
to make light by fermentation, as dough
{v} to ferment, raise, taint
{n} dough fermented, a mixture
Adding a leaving agent such as yeast, baking powder or baking soda to ingredients in order to allow either dough or batter to rise Lukewarm: Temperatures of about 95 degrees F , that feel neither warm nor cold when dabbed on the inside of the wrist
To imbue; to infect; to vitiate
Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp
a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"
{i} substance (such as yeast) which causes a batter or dough to ferment and rise; something that causes gradual change, something which alters or transforms
As a verb, to cause to rise As a noun, an ingredient incorporated into bread dough which causes the dough to rise through the release of CO2 through either a chemical process (as baking powder and/baking soda) or through a metabolic process of fermentation
To cause to rise by fermentation
To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment
{f} add a leavening agent to a dough or batter; influence, cause gradual change, alter or transform
Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass
If a situation or activity is leavened by or with something, it is made more interesting or cheerful. His mood of deep pessimism cannot have been leavened by his mode of transport -- a black cab He found congenial officers who knew how to leaven war's rigours with riotous enjoyment. to make something less boring, serious, or sad
a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm
To cause dough or batter to rise by use of a leavening agent, such as baking powder, baking soda or yeast which releases gases during preparation and baking
an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor" a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"
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