foment
verb (used with object)
to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of.
was fomenting
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past progressiveof foment.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Other pieces reported fairly when Toriello denied that the Arbenz government was fomenting strikes in Honduras.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2015
But peaceful as his life was, psychologically Charles Darwin was fomenting a maelstrom of revolution that was to have earth-shaking implications.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 13, 2013
He was also instrumental in repairing ties with Iran, strained over charges that Tehran was fomenting Islamic unrest in Jordan.
From Time Magazine Archive
She took his two hands and they remained silent, not daring, with their scruples as Catholics, to utter the sacrilegious thing which was fomenting in their heads.
From Ramuntcho by Pierre Loti
The Welsh were unsubdued; the French were plundering the southern coast; Northumberland was fomenting trouble in the north.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
