Значение

значений: 5
  1. (переходный)To add a leavening agent.

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

  2. (переходный)To cause to rise by fermentation.

    cause to puff up with a leaven

  3. (переносно, переходный)To temper an action, decision, attitude, characteristic, etc.

  4. (переносно, переходный)To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

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

    Her optimism seemed to leaven the otherwise tense environment.

  5. To rise or become larger; to prove.

Примеры

предложений: 3
  1. You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.

  2. The people therefore took dough before it was leavened; and tying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders.

  3. Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days: there shall not be seen any thing leavened with thee, nor in all thy coasts.

Переводы

языков: 3

Происхождение

From Middle English levayn, borrowed from Old French levain, from Vulgar Latin *levāmen, a

From Middle English levayn, borrowed from Old French levain, from Vulgar Latin *levāmen, a noun based on Latin levō (“raise”).

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Формы

leavens, leavening, leavened, leavened
Базовая формаleaven · to leaven
3-е лицо ед. числаleavens
Причастие настоящего времениleavening
Прошедшее времяleavened
Причастие прошедшего времениleavened

правильный · Урок

Present simpleУрок

I, you, we, theyleaven
he, she, itleavens

Past simpleУрок

все лицаleavened

Present perfectУрок

I, you, we, theyhave leavened
he, she, ithas leavened

Future simple (will)Урок

все лицаwill leaven

Синонимы

синонимов: 2
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Однокоренные

связанных слов: 7

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