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yeast
noun
verb
An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 5
- Starts with
- Y
- Ends with
- T
- Contains
- EAS
- Scrabble score
- 8
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
How it sounds
Pronunciation
/iːst/
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Meaning
Definitions
noun
An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
A frothy foam.
verb
To ferment.
(of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.
To exaggerate