Sekirov Dictionary

fester

UK /ˈfɛstə/US /ˈfɛstɚ/

noun 3
verb 3
forms 4

noun3

•
A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
- He has been away so long and so often, there has been such mismanagement under a long minority, such changes and such misrule, such a hard hand and such a high hand, that the whole place is a fester. — 1864
The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.
(no longer used) A fistula.

verb3

•
To become septic; to become rotten.
- [W]ounds immedicable / Ranckle, and fester, and gangrene, / To black mortification. — 1671
•
To cause to fester or rankle.
- For which I burnt in inward sweltring hate, / And festred rankling malice in my breast, / Till I might belke revenge upon his eyes: […] — 1599
•
(figurative) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
- Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester.

forms

festered · festering · festereth · festers

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