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Fester   /fˈɛstər/   Listen
noun
Fester  n.  
1.
A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
2.
A festering or rankling. "The fester of the chain their necks."


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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"Fester" Quotes from Famous Books



... to fester in the wounds. No, we mustn't do it; they want cutting out with a proper knife. Look here, Ned; jump on your pony and go and find father. He'd like to dress the ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn
... understand what he later found to be the truth: that what the Aleut really does with his slate harpoon-head is not to kill the whale with the wound, but to poison it. If the stone harpoon-head passes through the blubber and into the red meat the wound is sure to fester, and in the course of a few days to kill the whale, which then floats ashore somewhere and is discovered by ...
— The Young Alaskans • Emerson Hough
... Trafalgar Road. He walked because the last tram-car was already housed in its shed at the other end of the world, and he walked quickly because his conscience drove him onwards. And yet he dreaded to arrive, lest a wound in the child's leg should have maliciously decided to fester in order to put him in the wrong. He was now as apprehensive concerning that wound as Nellie herself had been ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... nails? Do you draw your breath part of the time through one nostril and part of the time through the other? Do you ever have nightmare? Did your nose bleed easily when you were growing up? Does your skin fester when scratched? Are your eyes gummy in the mornings? Then," he says, "if you have any or all of these symptoms, your blood is bad, and your liver is ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis
... longer progress take: Oh, what a pair Of dear esteemed friends to me they were! 'Tis not my verse, nor prose, may reach thieir praise; Neither of these can naked virtue raise Above her own true place: with them I have Reach'd many heights; one yoke of learning gave Laws to our steps, to them my fester'd wound I oft have show'd; no time or place I found To part from them; and hope, and wish we may Be undivided till my breath decay: With them I used (too early) to adorn My head with th' honour'd branches, only worn ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch


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