Thesaurus: fester

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1. n. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
2. n. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
3. v. t. To cause to fester or rankle.
4. n. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
5. n. A festering or rankling.
6. n. a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus
7. v. ripen and generate pus
8. 1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay. 2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle. To cause to fester or rankle. For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And fstered ranking malice in my breast. Marston. 1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharge corrupt matter; a pustule. 2. A festering or rankling. The fester of the chain their necks. I. Taylor.
9. To cause to fester or rankle.For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And fstered rankingmalice in my breast. Marston.
10. n:50/v:50 n. a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus v. ripen and generate pus