Found 4 items, similar to Festered.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: fester
bernanah
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: fester
berborok, membarah, memborok
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fester
fester
n : a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus [syn:
suppurating sore
]
v : ripen and generate pus;
“her wounds are festering” [syn:
maturate,
suppurate]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Festered
Fester
\Fes"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Festered; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Festering.] [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF.
festrir, fr. festre, n. See
Fester, n.]
1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a
sore or a wound festers.
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Wounds immedicable
Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. --Milton.
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Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and
smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
--South.
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Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children
of the soil. --Macaulay.
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2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in
intensity; to rankle.
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