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单词 fester
释义
fester
verb[I]
uk
/ˈfes.tər/us
/ˈfes.tɚ/

festerverb[I](INJURY)

If acutor otherinjuryfesters, itbecomesinfectedandproducespus:
（伤口）化脓，溃烂
a festeringsore脓疮
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Passing on illness & causing disease
  • aerosolize
  • catching
  • community transmission
  • contact tracer
  • contact tracing
  • disseminator
  • epidemic
  • harbour
  • infected
  • insalubrious
  • noncarrier
  • noncontagious
  • pass on
  • percent positive
  • pestilential
  • transmissible
  • transmit
  • transmittable
  • unhygienic
  • virally
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festerverb[I](FEELING)

If anargumentorbadfeelingfesters, itcontinuesso thatfeelingsofhateorlackofsatisfactionincrease:
（争论或不快的感觉）加剧，恶化
It'sbettertoexpressyourangerthanletit fester inside you.把愤怒表达出来比郁积在心里要好。
a festeringargument/dispute愈益激化的争论／争端
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Increasing and intensifying
  • -ify
  • accretion
  • accumulate
  • accumulative
  • add fuel to the fireidiom
  • additive
  • blaze
  • crank
  • heighten
  • hot up
  • increase
  • increment
  • inflation
  • mushroom
  • re-escalation
  • redouble
  • resurge
  • rocket
  • saturation
  • stake
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(Definition offesterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

fester| American Dictionary

fester
verb[I]
us
/ˈfes·tər/
(of aninjurysuch as acut) tobecomeinfectedandformpus(=thickyellowliquid)
fig.If abadsituationsuch as anargumentfesters, itbecomesworsebecause it is beingignored:
It wasbetterthat sheexpressedherangerratherthanletit fester inside her.
(Definition offesterfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffester

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Perhaps above all it is that expulsion that has festered for over half a century.
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The issue could have festered for weeks, causing uncertainty and massive damage to the industry.
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We need those for their own sakes, but we must also ensure that progress in one area is not threatened by festering disputes in others.
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A committee like that exists in an area to foresee local problems and to try to prevent them from festering or reaching flash-point.
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His hands would be a mass of sores and festers.
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Let the wounds you inflicted on her and the insults which are festering in her soul to-day heal, and perhaps time will bring a remedy.
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Discussions take place behind closed doors; the union representatives leak what was said, to the disadvantage of management; the process festers, and the situation deteriorates.
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Is it satisfactory that that matter festers and festers?
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When it is what we might call ripe it is brought back, and another surgeon scrapes what we would call the festers.
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In addition, their social policies almost seem to create the conditions in which crime festers—bad housing, high unemployment and cuts in public sector provision.
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The activities of these businesses are widespread and are festering all over the country.
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The consequence of his allowing this rebellion to succeed was that it grew and it festered.
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In five years' time my colleagues could then argue that it is another quango, festering away.
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Do not let it lie festering under the bandage of polite diplomacy.
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The slur, the stigma, created a sore, which rankled and festered.
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