leaven
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Is leaven a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.Examples: "Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod."; "On the far side was reflected a single red and meteoric cloud, which had treasured one last crimson ray from the sunset, or perhaps nursed within it the fiery leaven."; "The leaven of insincerity worked through all the fibres of his being."countablefigurativelyuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To add a leavening agent.Examples: "Yeast is used to leaven bread, making it rise during baking."transitive
2. (transitive) To cause to rise by fermentation.transitive
3. (transitive, figuratively) To temper an action, decision, attitude, characteristic, etc.Examples: "Duke. No more euasion: We haue with a leauen'd, and prepared choice Proceeded to you; therefore take your honors:[...]"; "“A tinge of Jewish blood is not a bad thing. It leavens the”—she looked at him—“stolid stupidity of the ordinary Englishman.”"; "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[…]"figurativelytransitive
4. (transitive, figuratively) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.Examples: "The comedian's jokes helped leaven the atmosphere during the serious meeting."; "Her optimism seemed to leaven the otherwise tense environment."; "With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he levens also his prayer."figurativelytransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary