verb
definition
To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
example
Foreign governments have tried to foment unrest.
definition
To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.
synonyms
Examples of fomenting in a Sentence
For this step he was severely attacked in parliament, and was accused of fomenting rebellion by means of his spies.
About this time he went to Paris, where he lived a poor, ascetic and studious life - making acquaintance, however, with the socialistic ideas which were then fomenting in the capital.
The ensuing debacle played a prominent part in the fomenting of the 1917 mutinies in the French Army.
As Julian Evans reported last week in these pages, the US is actively fomenting revolt in Belarus.
As ally of the Bourbons of Naples, from whom he had received an annual subsidy, he attempted, after 1860, to facilitate their restoration by fomenting brigandage on the Neapolitan frontier.
At the same time the cabinet, as a whole, brought in a Clerical Abuses Bill, threatening with severe punishment priests guilty of disturbing the peace of families, of opposing the laws of the state, or of fomenting disorder.
From this time forward it was against Assyria instead of Babylonia that Elam found itself compelled to exert its strength, and Elamite policy was directed towards fomenting revolt in Babylonia and assisting the Babylonians in their struggle with Assyria.
The Welsh were unsubdued; the French were plundering the southern coast; Northumberland was fomenting trouble in the north.
The part played by Egypt proper in the ensuing anti-Assyrian combinations is not clearly known; with a number of petty dynasts fomenting discontent and revolt, there was an absence -of cohesion in that ancient empire previous to the rise of the Ethiopian dynasty.
During 1920 and 1921 it was Poincare's influence that was mainly dictating the aggressiveness of French feeling in international politics; and during the latter part of Briand's premiership, culminating in Briand's visit to the United States for the Washington Conference at the end of 1921, it was Poincare who was fomenting the criticism that French interests were being undermined.
In 1878 he was employed by Ismail in fomenting a disturbance against the ministry of Nubar, Rivers Wilson and de Blignieres, and received in payment a wife from Ismail's harem and the command of a regiment.
The numerous agitators who had their own reasons for fomenting mutiny rose to the occasion, and in the first months of 1857 the greater part of the Bengal presidency was seething with sedition.
The Our Ukraine party went even further yesterday, accusing Moscow of directly fomenting the crisis.