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The correct spelling is yeast.
How to pronounce yeast
/iːst/
nounIPA: /iːst/
Say it like: Yee-st
The correct spelling is yeast. 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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Meanings
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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