festered
past simple and past participle offester
fester
verb[I]
uk/ˈfes.tər/us/ˈfes.tɚ/festerverb[I](INJURY)
If acutor otherinjuryfesters, itbecomesinfectedandproducespus:
a festeringsore
Passing on illness & causing disease
- aerosolize
- community transmission
- contact tracer
- contact tracing
- disseminator
- epidemic
- harbour
- infect
- infected
- insalubrious
- noncarrier
- noncontagious
- pass on
- percent positive
- pestilential
- transmissible
- transmit
- transmittable
- unhygienic
- virally
festerverb[I](FEELING)
If anargumentorbadfeelingfesters, itcontinuesso thatfeelingsofhateorlackofsatisfactionincrease:
It'sbettertoexpressyourangerthanletit fester inside you.
a festeringargument/dispute
Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fireidiom
- additive
- blaze
- fade
- hot up
- increase
- increment
- inflame
- inflation
- mushroom
- resurge
- rocket
- saturation
- scalesomethingup
- shoot up
- spike
Examplesoffestered
festered
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
With starvation rampant, disease soonfestered, and cholera and typhoid epidemics added to the already high fatalities.
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Tensionsfesteredbut then broke forth in fresh calls for reform in which access to records was a point of practical and symbolic significance.
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That is the seedbed on which the present dispute has grown andfestered.
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Perhaps above all it is that expulsion that hasfesteredfor over half a century.
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The issue could havefesteredfor weeks, causing uncertainty and massive damage to the industry.
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It is one that hasfesteredfar too long.
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There can then be no undercurrent of dissentfesteredby disenfranchisement.
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The consequence of his allowing this rebellion to succeed was that it grew and itfestered.
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The slur, the stigma, created a sore, which rankled andfestered.
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The grievances havefesteredfor seven or eight years.
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As the problems havefestered, extremism has grown on all sides and will continue to do so if there is not a firm and perceptible move towards a settlement.
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However, most of the participants were not fully satisfied, and grievances regarding the resultsfestereduntil they exploded in world war in 1914.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This rage must havefesteredbeneath that inexpressive exterior for years.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This album hasfesteredon me.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This sense of betrayal on the northerners hasfesteredinto a groundswell of mistrust by the population against virtually any overtures from the government to the rebels.
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