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# leavening

noun (leavening, uncountable); verb form (-ing form of leaven)

«leavening» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Leavening is something added to dough or batter, like yeast, baking powder or baking soda, to make it rise and become light. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leavening/#m1)
2. (literary) A leavening is a small amount of something, like humour, that makes something heavier or more serious better and lighter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leavening/#m2)

### In the lessons

Science and cooking: yeast makes gas bubbles that raise bread. Bible and church: unleavened bread (without yeast) at Passover; Jesus spoke of yeast (leaven) in parables. Stories: «a leavening of humour».

### Examples

- Yeast is the leavening in bread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leavening/#x1)
- Baking powder is a leavening for cakes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leavening/#x2)
- Matzah is bread made without leavening. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leavening/#x3)
- Without leavening, the cake came out flat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leavening/#x4)
- His jokes gave a leavening of fun to the long meeting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leavening/#x5)
- The class tested which leavening made the dough rise most. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leavening/#x6)

### Note

Say «LEV-en-ing». Base word: leaven. «Unleavened bread» = flat bread with no yeast.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «leavening» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leavening/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«leavening» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/leavening.html) on Mova free.