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Verb
/ˈlevən/,
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A substance, typically yeast, that is added to dough to make it ferment and rise,
  1. Cause (dough or bread) to ferment and rise by adding leaven
    • - leavened breads are forbidden during Passover
  2. Permeate and modify or transform (something) for the better
    • - the proceedings should be leavened by humor
    • - companies of militia volunteers with a leavening of regular soldiers
Noun
  1. A substance, typically yeast, that is added to dough to make it ferment and rise

  2. Dough that is reserved from an earlier batch in order to start a later one fermenting

  3. A pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better
    • - they acted as an intellectual leaven to the warriors who dominated the city
  1. a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
  2. raise: cause to puff up with a leaven; "unleavened bread"
  3. an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"
  4. A leavening agent (also leavening or leaven) is any one of a number of substances used in doughs and batters that cause a foaming action which lightens and softens the finished product. ...
  5. The Parable of the Leaven is a short parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke . In both places it immediately follows the Parable of the Mustard Seed, which shares this parable's theme of the Kingdom of Heaven growing from small beginnings.
  6. Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods; To add a leavening agent; To cause to rise by fermentation; To temper an action or decision
  7. yeast: also the process of whipping egg whites that produces air bubbles and causes the rising of baked items
  8. To add an ingredient, such as yeast, baking powder or baking soda, that adds gas to a dough or batter, causing it to expand, or rise, and lighten the texture of the finished product.
  9. To use a substance such as baking powder, baking soda or yeast to create the formation of gases within a mixture so that it rises up, resulting in a lighter texture and increased volume when cooked.
  10. An old word for Yeast. Symbolic of sin in scripture. In the New Testament it is used typologically for the sin of hypocrisy in particular. Jesus tells us: "beware the yeast". [Lk 12:1c,13:21, Mt 16:6-12, 1Cr 5:6-8. 2nd draft Bible Study on Blindness / Hypocrisy / Yeast.]
  11. That something ingredient mixed into the bread dough mixture, that causes bread to rise, also known as "rising". It normally includes your wild yeast, commercial yeast, baking powder, baking soda, and other chemical leaveners used in modern baking today.
  12. fermented dough; dough with ferment in it. The ferment in the dough would normally be yeast.
  13. (1.) Heb. seor (Ex. 12:15, 19; 13:7; Lev. 2:11), the remnant of dough from the preceding baking which had fermented and become acid.
  14. (as in "leavened bread"): A small amount of yeast will cause the whole loaf to rise—so a small amount of evil or good affects the whole body (Luke 13:20–21; I Corinthians 5:7–8). ...
  15. To raise; some leavening agents are baking powder, soda, and eggs.