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Festering   /fˈɛstərɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Fester  v. t.  To cause to fester or rankle. "For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And festered ranking malice in my breast."


Fester  v. i.  (past & past part. festered; pres. part. festering)  
1.
To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. "Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene." "Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester." "Hatred... festered in the hearts of the children of the soil."
2.
To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.





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... wear on their fingers, necks, and ears that's oblong in shape, glassy in luster, and formed from mother-of-pearl; for chemists it's a mixture of calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate with a little gelatin protein; and finally, for naturalists it's a simple festering secretion from the organ that produces mother-of-pearl in ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne
... to him for marrying her to Romeo, had given her poison; but then he was always known for a holy man: then lest she should awake before the time that Romeo was to come for her; whether the terror of the place, a vault of dead Capulets' bones, and where Tybalt, all bloody, lay festering in his shroud, would not be enough to drive her distracted: again she thought of all the stories she had heard of spirits haunting the places where their bodies were bestowed. But then her love for Romeo, and her aversion for Paris returned, and she desperately swallowed the ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb
... letters of His Law. Mountebank and masquer laughed their laugh, and went their way; and a silence has followed them, not unforetold; for amidst them all, through century after century of gathering vanity and festering guilt, that white dome of St. Mark's had uttered in the dead ear of Venice, "Know thou, that for all these things God will bring ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin
... the raw and festering wound of an old friend's conscience, Cottle! but it is oil of vitriol! I but barely glanced at the middle of the first page of your letter, and have seen no more of it—not from resentment, God forbid! but from the state of my bodily and mental sufferings, that scarcely ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle
... view as he drove over the brow of a long hill. He hated the place, knowing it well for what it was—a festering hotbed of gossip and malice, the habitat of all the slanderous rumours and innuendoes that permeated the social tissue of the community. The newest scandal, the worst-flavoured joke, the latest details of the most ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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