Fester
['festə] or ['fɛstɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus.
(verb.) ripen and generate pus; 'her wounds are festering'.
Checker: Zachariah--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
(n.) To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
(v. t.) To cause to fester or rankle.
(n.) A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
(n.) A festering or rankling.
Checker: Williams
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Rankle, corrupt, suppurate, ulcerate.[2]. Become malignant, grow virulent.
n. Pustule, sore, abscess, imposthume, gathering.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FERMENT]
Editor: Natasha
Definition
v.i. to become corrupt or malignant: to suppurate.—v.t. to cause to fester or rankle.—n. a wound discharging corrupt matter.
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Examples
- A proscribed fugitive, with a price upon his head; a fester and a wound upon the noble character of the Coketown operative! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It is from the festering humiliations of peoples that arrogant religious propagandas spring. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If the taboo is effective it drives the evil under cover, where it festers and emits a slow poison. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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