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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



... never shot them for piercing the vitals of other people. A forest, pierced with shafts or cut down with the axe, grows again. The man, however, that is pierced with words unwisely spoken, becomes the victim of wounds that fester and lead to death.[462] Barbed arrows and Nalikas and broadheaded shafts are capable of being extracted from the body. Wordy shafts, however, are incapable of being extracted, for they lie embedded in the very heart. One should ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli
... and suddenly discovered that his three guests were gone. There he sat alone, a silver-haired and highly-venerated old man, in the rich gloom of the crimsoned-curtained room, with no box of pictures on the table, but only a decanter of most excellent Madeira. Yet his heart still seemed to fester with the venom of ...
— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... trees, and do what you list: but if you let them grow great and stubborne, you must do as the trees list. They will not bend but breake, nor bee wound without danger. A small branch will become a bough, and a bough an arme in bignesse. Then if you cut him, his wound will fester, and hardly, without good skill, recouer: therefore, Obsta principys. Of such wounds, and lesser, of any bough cut off a handfull or more from the body, comes hollownesse, and vntimely death. And therefore when you ...
— A New Orchard And Garden • William Lawson
... such that I felt I might collapse in a moment. The gnawing in the stomach had developed there a permanent weakness, so that it was not possible to hold myself up in certain positions. Several of my toes commenced to blacken and fester near the tips and the ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson
... would be valuable certainly, but if he goes on as he is he will soon be in a high fever; his wounds will grow angry and fester. While yesterday he seemed in a fair way to recovery, I should be sorry to give any favourable opinion as to what may happen if this goes on. Is there no one who could take care of ...
— When London Burned • G. A. Henty


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