Definition of "fomenter" [fo•ment•er]

• One who incites or promotes. (noun)

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• "Now, as an Al Qaeda field commander sporting a bandolier of bullets, he is threatening the United States and has been hailed by a militant Web site as a veteran guerrilla and "a fomenter of war.""
• "Eventually the Federal services fingered a recently dead scientist as the fomenter of the attacks."
• "Mr. Schmidt is familiar with the game as chief technology officer of Sun Microsystems in the 1990s, he was a chief fomenter of the antitrust assault on Bill Gates"