To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
He was arrested for fomenting a riot; after all, it's bad enough being in a riot but starting one is much worse.
Fomentation.
He came in no conciliatory mood, and the foment was kept up.
From Middle English fomenten, a borrowing from Old French fomenter, from Late Latin fōmentāre, from Latin fōmentum (“lotion”), from fovēre (“heat, cherish”).
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