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leavened

leavened \leavened\ adj. made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder. Opposite of unleavened. [Narrower terms: {sourdough(prenominal) ]

Wiktionary
leavened
  1. Prepared using leavening v

  2. (en-past of: leaven)

WordNet
leavened

adj. made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder; often used as a combining form; "leavened bread"; "well-leavened"; "yeast-leavened breads" [ant: unleavened]

Usage examples of "leavened".

Breschius' smile was leavened by regret, an old sorrow never quite recovered from.

Stronghand leaned forward to taste the wind: was that the scent of their enemy's fear, leavened with the stink of decay?

Be ruthless and yet seem so compassionate when mothers brought hurt children to his care, or his soldiers confessed their cares and worries and little crimes to him, for which he always prescribed a just penance leavened by the kiss of mercy.

It took a select group of pupils aged sixteen to twenty from various corners of the globe and subjected them to a moderately difficult academic curriculum heavily leavened with boating, climbing, hill walking, and other physically demanding activities.

Indira was not certain, but she thought it was a brilliant emotional exhibition of diffident apology, leavened by humor (no, not humor—good feeling).

It was beautiful, romantic, leavened with both sadness and evil and, most crucially, self-contained: There were mountains and fields, an ocean, a lagoon, and a port town in the distance—an entire world in miniature.

And here was the one factor that leavened, just a little, the sadness of the journey for Alberich.