The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word LEAVEN
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More clues leading to the result LEAVEN
- Raise the dough to quit before November
- It’ll excite change in general and cause end of inaction
- Absence from duties, note – it’ll make a general change
- Quit application, finally causing ferment
- Subtly influence to go north
- Ferment in Zion? Change the leader for Liberal
- Holiday North – it’s invigorating
- Abandon Beethoven’s Ninth in ferment
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What does LEAVEN mean?
LEAVEN noun- Any agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
- Anything that makes a general assimilating change in the mass.
- To add a leavening agent.
- To cause to rise by fermentation.
- To temper an action or decision.
- To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
- To rise or become larger.