Synonyms of the word leaven


LEAVENELEVATE - IMPONDERABLE - LEAVENING - LIFT - MATTER - PROVE - RAISE - SUBSTANCE

leaven

  • n. Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
  • n. (figuratively) Anything that makes a general assimilating change in the mass.
  • v. (transitive) To add a leavening agent.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to rise by fermentation.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To temper an action or decision.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
  • v. To rise or become larger.

elevate

  • v. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
  • v. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
  • v. (transitive) To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
  • v. (transitive) To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
  • v. (transitive) To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
  • v. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
  • adj. (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.

imponderable

  • adj. Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.
  • adj. Difficult or impossible to comprehend or evaluate.
  • n. (physics) An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat,…
  • n. An imponderable question.

leavening

  • adj. made light by aeration.
  • n. a leavening agent.

lift

  • n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
  • n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
  • v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
  • v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
  • v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
  • v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
  • v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
  • v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
  • v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
  • n. An act of lifting or raising.
  • n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
  • n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
  • n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
  • n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
  • n. (historical slang) A thief.
  • n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
  • n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
  • n. an improvement in mood.
  • n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
  • n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
  • n. A lift gate.
  • n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
  • n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
  • n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
  • n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

matter

  • n. Substance, material.
  • n. A condition, subject or affair, especially one of concern.
  • n. An approximate amount or extent.
  • n. (obsolete) The essence; the pith; the embodiment.
  • n. (obsolete) Inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
  • n. (dated) Pus.
  • v. (intransitive) To be important.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects) To care about, to mind; to find important.
  • v. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.

prove

  • v. (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
  • v. (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
  • v. (copulative) To turn out to be.
  • v. (transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
  • v. (transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To experience.
  • v. (printing, dated, transitive) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
  • v. simple past tense of proove.

raise

  • v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
  • v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
  • v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
  • v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
  • v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
  • v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
  • v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
  • n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
  • n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
  • n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
  • n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
  • n. A cairn or pile of stones.

substance

  • n. Physical matter; material.
  • n. The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
  • n. Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
  • n. Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
  • n. A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
  • n. Drugs (illegal narcotics).
  • n. (theology) Hypostasis.

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