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fomentation

/foh-men-tey-shuhn/US // ˌfoʊ mɛnˈteɪ ʃən //

煽动,煽动性,煽风点火,鼓动

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : encouragement of discord, rebellion, etc.; instigation.
    • : the application of warm liquid, ointments, etc., to the surface of the body.
    • : the liquid, ointments, etc., so applied.

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Examples

  • A warm bath, or fomentation with warm water and Laudanum, will assist, and sometimes relieve alone.

  • I only wish I were that chap in the mythology with a hundred hands—and every blessed one of them in need of fomentation.

  • In India they make a decoction of the plant, mix it with onion juice and apply it to the head as a fomentation in hemicrania.

  • Warmth applied externally to the stomach by hot cloths or fomentation.

  • Another fomentation, a visit from the doctor, who put us all on stout, and dinner was up.