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fes·ter

(fĕs′tər)
v. fes·tered, fes·ter·ing, fes·ters
v. intr.
1. To generate pus; suppurate.
2. To form an ulcer.
3. To undergo decay; rot.
4.
a. To be or become an increasing source of irritation or poisoning; rankle: bitterness that festered and grew.
b. To be subject to or exist in a condition of decline: allowed the once beautiful park to fester.
v. tr.
To infect, inflame, or corrupt.
n.
A small festering sore or ulcer; a pustule.

[Middle English festren, from festre, fistula, from Old French, from Latin fistula; see fistula.]
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fester

(ˈfɛstə)
vb
1. (Medicine) to form or cause to form pus
2. (intr) to become rotten; decay
3. to become or cause to become bitter, irritated, etc, esp over a long period of time; rankle: resentment festered his imagination.
4. (intr) informal to be idle or inactive
n
(Medicine) a small ulcer or sore containing pus
[C13: from Old French festre suppurating sore, from Latin: fistula]
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fes•ter

(ˈfɛs tər)

v.i.
1. to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate: a festering wound.
2. to cause ulceration, as a foreign body in the flesh.
3. to putrefy or rot.
4. to rankle, as resentment or bitterness: The desire for revenge festered in her heart.
v.t.
5. to cause to rankle: envy festering the spirit.
n.
6. an ulcer; a rankling sore.
[1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French festre < Latin fistula fistula]
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fester


Past participle: festered
Gerund: festering

Imperative
fester
fester
Present
I fester
you fester
he/she/it festers
we fester
you fester
they fester
Preterite
I festered
you festered
he/she/it festered
we festered
you festered
they festered
Present Continuous
I am festering
you are festering
he/she/it is festering
we are festering
you are festering
they are festering
Present Perfect
I have festered
you have festered
he/she/it has festered
we have festered
you have festered
they have festered
Past Continuous
I was festering
you were festering
he/she/it was festering
we were festering
you were festering
they were festering
Past Perfect
I had festered
you had festered
he/she/it had festered
we had festered
you had festered
they had festered
Future
I will fester
you will fester
he/she/it will fester
we will fester
you will fester
they will fester
Future Perfect
I will have festered
you will have festered
he/she/it will have festered
we will have festered
you will have festered
they will have festered
Future Continuous
I will be festering
you will be festering
he/she/it will be festering
we will be festering
you will be festering
they will be festering
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been festering
you have been festering
he/she/it has been festering
we have been festering
you have been festering
they have been festering
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been festering
you will have been festering
he/she/it will have been festering
we will have been festering
you will have been festering
they will have been festering
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been festering
you had been festering
he/she/it had been festering
we had been festering
you had been festering
they had been festering
Conditional
I would fester
you would fester
he/she/it would fester
we would fester
you would fester
they would fester
Past Conditional
I would have festered
you would have festered
he/she/it would have festered
we would have festered
you would have festered
they would have festered
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.fester - a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus
sore - an open skin infection
Verb1.fester - ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering"
suppurate, mature - cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules"
eject, expel, release, exhaust, discharge - eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas"
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fester

verb
1. intensify, gall, smoulder, chafe, irk, rankle, aggravate Resentments are starting to fester.
2. putrefy, decay, become infected, become inflamed, suppurate, ulcerate, maturate, gather The wound is festering and gangrene has set in.
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Translations
يتَقَيَّح،يتَعَفَّن
hnisat
blive betændtblive inficeret
gennyed
grafa í
pūliuoti
pūžņotstrutot
hnisať
iltihaplanmak

fester

[ˈfestəʳ] VI (Med) [wound, sore] → enconarse (fig) [anger, resentment] → enconarse
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fester

[ˈfɛstər] vi
[wound] → suppurer
[ill-feeling, hostility] → couver
[problem] → s'étendre
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

fester

vieitern, schwären (old); (fig, insult, resentment etc) → nagen, fressen; festering sore (fig)Eiterbeule f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fester

[ˈfɛstəʳ] vi (Med) → suppurare; (anger, resentment) → covare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fester

(ˈfestə) verb
(of an open injury eg a cut or sore) to become infected. The wound began to fester.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

fes·ter

v. enconarse; supurar superficialmente.
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When they reached Yaroslavl the wound had begun to fester (Natasha knew all about such things as festering) and the doctor had said that the festering might take a normal course.
I think thou observedst, it is probable the wound will fester, so as to occasion danger to the limb in this cold weather?”
“Out of nater, sir, quite out of nater,” said Elnathan, attempting to expectorate, but succeeding only in throwing a light, frothy substance, like a flake of snow, into the fire—” quite out of nater that a wound so well dressed, and with the ball in my pocket, should fester. I s’pose, as the Judge talks of taking the young man into his house, it will be most convenient if I make but one charge on’t.”
All the hate and scorn and love of a deep nature such as the shy man is ever cursed by fester and corrupt within, instead of spending themselves abroad, and sour him into a misanthrope and cynic.
But they are such only when they seek to gratify the passion of revenge upon their enemies; and I ask whether the mere eating of human flesh so very far exceeds in barbarity that custom which only a few years since was practised in enlightened England:--a convicted traitor, perhaps a man found guilty of honesty, patriotism, and suchlike heinous crimes, had his head lopped off with a huge axe, his bowels dragged cut and thrown into a fire; while his body, carved into four quarters, was with his head exposed upon pikes, and permitted to rot and fester among the public haunts of men!
His forearms were black and blue from wrist to elbow, what of the countless blows he had warded off, and here and there the tortured flesh was beginning to fester. His head and arms and shoulders ached, the small of his back ached, - he ached all over, and his brain was heavy and dazed.
And beneath will be the abyss, wherein will fester and starve and rot, and ever renew itself, the common people, the great bulk of the population.
It would appear that they are a half-brute, half-human species, a race apart, wherein there is no such thing as sex; that they are hatched out by the sun like turtle eggs, or receive life in some similar and sordid fashion; and that all their days they fester in brutality and viciousness, and in the end die as unlovely as they have lived.
Malaria still festered in me and put me on my back in shivering delirium at the most unexpected moments, compelling me to cancel a double lecture tour which had been arranged.
The hot summer was on-- Jacobus Laningdale had selected the time shrewdly--and the plague festered everywhere.
Although lately some spark may have been shown by one, which made us think he was ordained by God for our redemption, nevertheless it was afterwards seen, in the height of his career, that fortune rejected him; so that Italy, left as without life, waits for him who shall yet heal her wounds and put an end to the ravaging and plundering of Lombardy, to the swindling and taxing of the kingdom and of Tuscany, and cleanse those sores that for long have festered. It is seen how she entreats God to send someone who shall deliver her from these wrongs and barbarous insolencies.
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