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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 length
5
Starts with
Y
Ends with
T
Contains
EA
Scrabble score
8

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Pronunciation

/iːst/ /iːst/

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Definitions

noun

  1. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

  2. A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.

  3. A frothy foam.

verb

  1. To ferment.

  2. (of something prepared with a yeasted dough) To rise.

  3. To exaggerate

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