FOMENT
foment
Verb
- To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate.
- He was arrested for fomenting a riot; after all, it's bad enough being in a riot but starting one is much worse.
- To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.
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