Definitions
ripen and generate pus
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English festre, festur, borrowed from Old French festre (cognate with Italian fistola, Occitan fistola, Spanish fístula), from Latin fistula. The verb is derived from the noun, while the “condition of something that festers” noun sense is derived from the verb. Doublet of fistula.
Used in a sentence
“He has been away so long and so often, there has been such mismanagement under a long minority, such changes and such misrule, such a hard hand and such a high hand, that the whole place is a fester.”
“[W]ounds immedicable / Ranckle, and feſter, and gangrene, / To black mortification.”
“Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Grow worse, as resentment”6 letters
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