leaven

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
2. isim Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.

   “Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.”

3. isim Chametz.

   “On the fourteenth day of Nisan men search for leaven by candlelight.”

4. fiil To add a leavening agent.

   “Yeast is used to leaven bread, making it rise during baking.”

5. fiil To cause to rise by fermentation.
6. fiil To temper an action, decision, attitude, characteristic, etc.

   “Duke. No more euasion: We haue with a leauen'd, and prepared choice Proceeded to you; therefore take your honors:[...]”

7. fiil To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

   “The comedian's jokes helped leaven the atmosphere during the serious meeting.”

8. fiil To rise or become larger; to prove.