leavening
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leavening
- present participle and gerund of leaven
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leavening (plural leavenings)
- The process by which something is leavened.
- 1956, Charlie Lewis Broad, Winston Churchill, Architect of Victory and of Peace, page 623:
- For these lighter leavenings of the heavy dough of debate, members were in Sir Winston's debt.
- Synonym of leavening agent
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leavening (not comparable)