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How to pronounce “leaven”
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Pronunciation guide for leaven
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of leaven with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 3 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Jackie Tabick: The balancing act of compassion 15 minutes,
Because that's how long they say it takes for this dough to become leaven.
- Definition summary
- Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
Example 1 of 3
How to pronounce leaven
Jackie Tabick: The balancing act of compassion 15 minutes,
Because that's how long they say it takes for this dough to become leaven.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “leaven”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
- (figurative) Anything that induces change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
- Chametz.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To add a leavening agent.
- (transitive) To cause to rise by fermentation.
- (transitive, figuratively) To temper an action, decision, attitude, characteristic, etc.
- (transitive, figuratively) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
- To rise or become larger; to prove. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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