Antonyms for foment
foʊˈmɛntfo·ment

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1. foment

   To promote (Latin pro, forward, and moveo, move) is to cause to move forward toward some desired end or to raise to some higher position, rank, or dignity. We promote a person by advancing, elevating, or exalting him to a higher position or dignity. A person promotes a scheme or an enterprise which others have projected or begun, and which he encourages, forwards, furthers, pushes, or urges on, especially when he acts as the agent of the prime movers and supporters of the enterprise. One who excites a quarrel originates it; to promote a quarrel is strictly to foment and urge it on, the one who promotes keeping himself in the background. Compare ABET; QUICKEN.

   See synonyms for ABASE; ALLAY.

   Synonyms:
   advance, aid, assist, elevate, encourage, exalt, excite, forward, foster, further, help, prefer, promote, push, push on, raise, urge forward, urge on

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1. foment

   Antonyms:
   allay, extinguish, discourage, extirpate, quench

   Synonyms:
   excite, cherish, fan, propagate, encourage

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1. • Bathe

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1. agitate, foment, stir upverb

   try to stir up public opinion

   Synonyms:
   fight, wake, fire up, commove, turn on, shake up, ignite, agitate, shake, rouse, disturb, vex, stir, campaign, excite, stir up, inflame, charge, shift, instigate, raise up, press, incite, charge up, crusade, set off, push, budge, heat

2. fomentverb

   bathe with warm water or medicated lotions

   "His legs should be fomented"

   Synonyms:
   stir up, agitate

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1. fomentverb

   Synonyms:
   encourage, instigate, nurse, stupe

How to use foment in a sentence?

1. Nancy Pelosi:

   I think you make more of it than there is in our caucus to be honest, the press loves to foment unease in the Democratic Party. We are very united about for the people, lower health care cost, bigger paychecks, HR 1, cleaner government.

2. Wasserman Schultz:

   His comments today were worse than opportunistic and inappropriate politicking in the wake of the terrible tragedy in Brussels -- they were a shameful display of hate that only serves to foment anger and make the world less secure.

3. John F. Kennedy:

   The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight.

4. John Katko:

   China and Russia love nothing more than to see mayhem created in the United States, but they're not stupid enough to create it themselves, if they cozy up to the Taliban government, like it sounds like they're going to, that is the perfect proxy to help fund and foment mayhem in the U.S. without having to have their fingers on it.

5. Fernando Melendez:

   The only thing foreign companies have done is pollute and foment distrust among local populations, we don't see any benefits and remain an impoverished region.

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