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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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"Festering" Quotes from Famous Books



... into the circle of Love and Justice, Come into the brotherhood of Pity, Of Holiness and Health! Strike out glad limbs upon the sunny waters, Or be dragged down amid the rotting weeds, The festering bodies. Save thy soul from sandy barrenness, Let it blossom with roses and gleam with the ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... of limbs, deformed children, repulsive and festering sores, and other diseases too foul for description were proudly exhibited at every step. A cap was placed invitingly in front of each, and partly filled with alms already given. In piteous agony diseased hands and quavering voices besought ...
— The Land of the Black Mountain - The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro • Reginald Wyon
... diversity of opinion upon almost every principle of politics had indeed drawn a strong line of separation between them and some others. However, they were desirous not to extend the misfortune by unnecessary bitterness; they wished to prevent a difference of opinion on the commonwealth from festering into rancorous and incurable hostility. Accordingly they endeavored that all past controversies should be forgotten; and that enough for the day should be the evil thereof. There is however a limit at which forbearance ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... glance gave no answer, and for the moment a feeling of despair overcame her. Had she given him up only to the end that his life should be miserable; had she forced him into a marriage whose bonds would gall and chafe him with more deadly and festering wounds as time ...
— The Pagans • Arlo Bates
... declared, his heart told him what to do. They therefore moved on slowly till about midnight, when they passed the Mandara frontier, in a state of severe suffering, but the major met with much kindness from a dethroned prince, Mai Meagamy, who seeing his wounds festering under the rough woollen cloak, which formed his only covering, took off his own trousers and gave them ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish


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