foment
verb (formal)- foment something
to create trouble or violence or make it worse synonym inciteTopics War and conflictc2挑起,激起,煽动(事端或暴力) Oxford Collocations DictionaryFoment is used with these nouns as the object:- coup
- rebellion
- revolution
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (originally meaning to bathe with warm or medicated lotions): from French fomenter, from late Latin fomentare, from Latin fomentum ‘poultice, lotion’, from fovere ‘to heat, cherish’.