0 past simple and past participle of leaven --
1 to add a substance to bread or another food made with flour to make it increase in size when it is cooked --
These opportunities, leavened with the support which hard work and determination still receive in this country, enabled me to revive industries which were largely abandoned or downgraded some decades ago.
He gave us the benefit of his very wide knowledge of tourism with a great deal of verve, leavened with a little transport which particularly appeals to me.
With regard to membership of the authority, will it be leavened (if lawyers will forgive my saying so) by the presence of a significant number of non-lawyers?
It is export-based, it is manufacturing-based and it has leavened its employment with imports of service sector activities from the south-east and other parts.
It is to ensure that those who have met constantly for 25 years—the large parties—will be leavened by others.
We want it to be leavened by thriving, thrusting and prosperous competition from independent television.
But we are now so leavened into a mould of similarity that eccentricity no longer exists.
I am not a lawyer, but we are doing our best to see that the situation is leavened.
