| 单词 | leavening |
| 释义 | leavening (once / 25583 pages) n WORD FAMILY leavening: leavenings+/leaven: leavened, leavening, leavens/leavened: unleavened USAGE EXAMPLESIt was Obama at his finest: full of emotional power, oratorical grace and leavening wit. The Guardian(Nov 26, 2016) In fact, you could argue it’s an improvement, that in a culture of distraction leavening our entertainment with substance is a welcome development. Los Angeles Times(Aug 06, 2016) “Even if you’re capturing a small portion, you’re leavening the force with folks who are graduating from elite schools” she said. Reuters(May 23, 2016) 1n a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid Syn|Hypo|Hyper leaven baking powder any of various powdered mixtures used in baking as a substitute for yeast sourdougha leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread barm, yeasta commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey yeast cakesmall cake of compressed moist yeast brewer's yeastyeast used in fermenting beer mothera stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar substance a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties 2n an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor Syn|Hyper leaven imponderable a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed |
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