leaven 的 2 个定义
- a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
- fermented dough reserved for producing fermentation in a new batch of dough.
- an element that produces an altering or transforming influence.
- to add leaven to and cause to rise.
- to permeate with an altering or transforming element.
leaven 近义词
ferment
influence
raise
更多leaven例句
- “So you give the right information” but leaven it with laughs.
- Then they began to talk among themselves: what had they done to be thus bidden to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees?
- On these few occasions indeed it would even appear to be tinctured with some slight leaven of good-nature.
- In a word, superstition is a dangerous leaven, that is fitted to corrupt even the most honest hearts.
- The knowledge that before long he would take unto himself a wife was a leaven that leavened every thought and every act.
- Even Canada, with its leaven of Orangemen, was to be honoured with the speeches of an orator of second-rate powers.