Word Meaning

Meaning of leaven

- Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough, produces a general change in the mass, and renders it light; yeast; barm.
- Anything which makes a general assimilating (especially a corrupting) change in the mass.
- To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
- To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.

Crossword clue for leaven

- Ferment
- Fermenting agent
- It gets the batter up
- Mass of dough
- Raising agent
- Rising agent
- Some dough
- Yeast, say