To fester is to grow and spread, not in a good way. When a cut gets infected it starts to fester and smell bad. Emotional wounds stink too, like when you hold on to anger or pain until it starts to fester and explodes.
To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate;
Noun
a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus
Verb
ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering"
n.
To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a
sore or a wound festers.
n.
To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in
intensity; to rankle.
v. t.
To cause to fester or rankle.
n.
A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt
matter; a pustule.
n.
A festering or rankling.
Fester
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.
Fester
For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And fstered ranking malice in my breast.
Fester
The fester of the chain their necks.
To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate;
To cause to fester or rankle.
A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharge corrupt matter; a pustule.
Usage Examples
As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.
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Other Usage ExamplesZionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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