English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of leaven

leaven

/noun/ पुट; मिलावट; ख़मीर;

Synonym admixture; yeast;

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English Dictionary:

1. Leaven

[n.]

- 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.

2. Leaven

[v. t.]

- To make light by the action of leaven; to cause to ferment.
- To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.