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fester
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Disputes between environmentalists and loggers have been festering for decades. ▪ The animal parts were allowed to fester in the hot sun. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A festering inflammation on his foot kept him from joining ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To become septic; to become rotten. 2 To worsen, especially due to lack of attention. 3 To cause to fester or rankle.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fester or Fester's may refer to: Fester Hollow , a tributary of the West Branch Briar Creek in Columbia County, Pennsylvania Fester Kun Med Mig Selv , a single by Danish singer Jon Nørgaard Uncle Fester , or Fester Addams, a member of the fictional Addams ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fester \Fes"ter\, n. [OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf. Fistula .] A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule. A festering or rankling. The fester of the chain their necks. --I. Taylor.
Usage examples of fester.
It was to Migel that Helen appealed in the festering dispute between Bob Barnett and Eric Boulter over the respective roles of the AFB and the AFOB.
The ceilidh was being held in a barnlike shack falling to rack and ruin down in the midst of the mangrove swamps festering about the mouth of the Dungloe River.
Why were there no words that would unlock what lay festering in the heart of Rowdy Dick Doolan, who needed so desperately to express what he could never even know needed expression?
Even if the poor wretches survived the tribulation, they could die if the wound festered, or be left maimed for life.
King Danube will find his strength in Duke Kalas and in the others who have been his supporters since before Jilseponie, since before the demon dactyl and the misery that has festered in the kingdom and in the Abellican Church.
Everywhere it touched, the skin festered and burst into red-black sores of diseased corruption.
He was a mite of a boy, nothing but skin-covered bones, his burned, freckled face in a mortar of tears and dust, his clothing unspeakably dirty, one great toe in a festering mass from a broken nail, and sores all over the visible portions of the small body.
A great festering wound, a gumma, had eaten away most of her nose and turned it into an open snout.
They make all manner of things from this naphtha, even some odd salves that keep wounds from festering, but one thing theyve found is the secret of making Quegan fire.
Having nurtured a festering resentment for this particular nobleman well before their introduction, Roger was as unwilling to accept the proffered hand as the man had been reluctant to extend it, but in so doing, he suffered a measurable shock as the long fingers closed about his own hand.
Those California goddamned clowns, both smelling of patchouli oil, and cheap sweet wine, and an angry festering vindictiveness.
She has sniffed the aroma of festering emotions and now she moves in to tweeze and scrape and dig.
With another beat of her festering wings, Umrae hopped and closed the distance.
Tim down because otherwise the guilt would fester like an unlanced boil for years.
He helped the physicians with binding woundwort and other medicinal herbs, including some mosses and clay, around open cuts to stop them festering.