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  1. yeast, barmnoun

    a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey

    Synonyms:
    barm

  2. yeastnoun

    any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division

    Synonyms:
    barm

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Dictionary of English Synonymes3.5 / 2 votes

  1. yeastnoun

    Synonyms:
    barm, ferment, EMPTYINGS

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  1. yeastnoun

    Synonyms:
    harm, leaven, ferment

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  1. List of paraphrases for "yeast":

    yeasts, leaven

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How to use yeast in a sentence?

  1. Michael Krondl:

    This probably would have been great six hours ago, But I feel as though the glaze just gets lost in the cake donut and a yeast donut just works better with complicated toppings.

  2. Christina Smolke:

    At home, you stick yeast at the bottom of a barrel, but in labs, everything is controlled in special vessels.

  3. Raquel Dardik:

    All that stuff has sugar which will change the bacteria and yeast proportions which can cause infections. Those substances can also be irritating to the vaginal skin, so it might seem like a good idea at the time, but you may have either vaginal irritation or a vaginal infection afterwards.

  4. Cyril Brun:

    The yeast converts the sugar into alcohol, and because of the pressure, carbon dioxide is created, providing a shower of bubbles.

  5. Hunter Handsfield:

    Maybe there's a little discharge, a little itch, it's easy for a woman to think it's a yeast infection and self-treat while the chlamydia is climbing up into her fallopian tubes.


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