I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the beginning of the season, when the vegetation within is actively fermenting, it may overheat.
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Given an adequate amount of glucose, the ethanol content of a fermenting liquid rises until it reaches about 12 percent.
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If the temperature is too low the beer will stop fermenting.
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It is much faster to ferment , effectively raising capacity.
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Kikkoman Soy Sauce takes a full 6 months to naturally ferment , just like a fine wine.
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Pesso means to bake, ripen, ferment or digest.
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Set the bucket in the position where you intend to ferment the beer.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
intellectual
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It was an age of intellectual ferment too.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And like the Hill, here people of such different backgrounds were tossed together into one grand ferment .
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Not all the banlieues are in ferment , of course.
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The reformulations are there because there is a ferment of thought in process, demanding words.
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Thirteen others arrested during the ferment are being brought before the courts in two batches.
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Town-planning ideas were in ferment from another direction too.
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Yet there is a great religious fervor and ferment evident among not only young people but old and middle-aged as well.