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 cause to rise by fermentation
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 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"
leavened
Prepared using leavening
leavened
Simple past tense and past participle of leaven
leavening
a leavening agent
leavening
made light by aeration
leavened
made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder; often used as a combining form; "leavened bread"; "well-leavened"; "yeast-leavened breads
leavened
past of leaven
leavened
{s} containing leaven (of dough or batter)
leavening
The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven
leavening
an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"
leavening
{i} substance (such as yeast) which causes a batter or dough to ferment and rise, leaven; something that causes gradual change, something which alters or transforms
leavening
a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
leavening
That which leavens or makes light
leavens
third-person singular of leaven
leavens
plural of , leaven
leaven

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    /ˈlevən/ /ˈlɛvən/

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    [ 'le-v&n ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English levain, from Old French, ultimately from Latin levō (“I raise”).