Synonyms for leaven
ˈlɛv ənleav·en

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1. leaven, leaveningnoun

   a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

   Synonyms:
   leavening

2. leaven, leaveningverb

   an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something

   "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"

   Synonyms:
   leavening

3. raise, leaven, proveverb

   cause to puff up with a leaven

   "unleavened bread"

   Synonyms:
   kindle, farm, rise, put forward, set up, try, upgrade, try out, show, testify, provoke, elevate, kick upstairs, recruit, upraise, enkindle, establish, put up, heighten, stir, evidence, elicit, advance, conjure, lift, examine, fire, arouse, grow, bring up, conjure up, nurture, resurrect, levy, promote, erect, essay, prove, call down, get up, produce, shew, call forth, invoke, turn out, demonstrate, raise, turn up, evoke, rear, parent, enhance, test, bear witness

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1. leavennoun

   Synonyms:
   yeast, ferment, barm, emptyings, fermenting substance

2. leavennoun

   Synonyms:
   pervading influence

3. leavenverb

   Synonyms:
   produce or excite fermentation in

4. leavenverb

   Synonyms:
   imbue, infect, vitiate, taint

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1. List of paraphrases for "leaven":

   yeast

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How to use leaven in a sentence?

1. George Will:

   If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

2. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   Whether wealth bring the curse of selfishness along with it, or that the leaven was in our nature, only dormant till called forth by circumstances, we are only too apt to misuse it, even as others have done before us.

3. Spencer W. Kimball:

   The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

4. The Talmud:

   There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality.

5. Stephen Covey:

   I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.