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verb-intransitive. To generate pus; suppurate.

verb-intransitive. To form an ulcer.

verb-intransitive. To undergo decay; rot.

verb-intransitive. To be or become an increasing source of irritation or poisoning; rankle: bitterness that festered and grew.

verb-intransitive. To be subject to or exist in a condition of decline: allowed the once beautiful park to fester.

v. To infect, inflame, or corrupt.

n. A small festering sore or ulcer; a pustule.

v. To become septic; to become rotten.

v. To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.

verb-intransitive. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate.

verb-intransitive. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.

v. To cause to fester or rankle.

n. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.

n. A festering or rankling.

n. An ulcer; a rankling sore; a small purulent tumor; more particularly, a superficial suppuration resulting from irritation of the skin, the pus being developed in vesicles of irregular figure and extent.

n. The act of festering or rankling.

To become a fester; generate purulent matter, as a wound; suppurate; ulcerate.

To become corrupt; generate rottenness; rot.

To become more and more virulent; rankle, as a feeling of resentment or hatred.

To cause to fester: as, exposure festers a wound.

To cause to rankle, as a feeling of resentment.

n. Same as festue.

n. a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus

v. ripen and generate pus

"Killing everything or continuing to let this hesitancy fester is not going to get it done."

festered    festering    festers   

sore    expel    exhaust    eject    discharge    release   

rankle    pustule   

Chester    Esther    Hester    Kester    Leicester    Lester    Nester    Nestor    Sylvester    ester