fester

/fes-ter/US // ˈfɛs tər //UK // (ˈfɛstə) //

溃烂,溃疡,发酵,溃烂的

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.
- : to cause ulceration, as a foreign body in the flesh.
- : to putrefy or rot.
- : to rankle, as a feeling of resentment.

v.有主动词 verb

n.名词 noun

verbintensify; become inflamed

Forms: festered, festering

Synonyms

We denied them loans, closed them off in housing projects, redlined their neighborhoods, and left them to fester.
I've tried to forget the grudges, the painful memories, the resentments I allowed to fester in my heart for so long.
Low-grade insurgencies fester in other states, notably among the Karen minority.
But they will leave the country rudderless, the victory will be hollow, and the problems will be left to fester.
Jewish refugees were absorbed in Israel and the West; the Palestinians were left to fester in camps.
Several of my toes commenced to blacken and fester near the tips and the nails worked loose.
The wrong done the body politic may fester unseen, but it festers on all the same.
Only such carrion as this was left to fester upon the earth, to poison the lives of decent men and women.
The enemies of their fellows are bred, not in deserts, but in cities, where human creatures fester together in heaps.
There are words a man has no power or wish to say to a man, yet which must be spoken or they fester in his mind.

/fes-ter/US // ˈfɛs tər //UK // (ˈfɛstə) //

溃烂,溃疡,发酵,溃烂的

v.无主动词 verb

1
- : to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.
- : to cause ulceration, as a foreign body in the flesh.
- : to putrefy or rot.
- : to rankle, as a feeling of resentment.

v.有主动词 verb

n.名词 noun

verbintensify; become inflamed

Forms: festered, festering

Synonyms

We denied them loans, closed them off in housing projects, redlined their neighborhoods, and left them to fester.
I've tried to forget the grudges, the painful memories, the resentments I allowed to fester in my heart for so long.
Low-grade insurgencies fester in other states, notably among the Karen minority.
But they will leave the country rudderless, the victory will be hollow, and the problems will be left to fester.
Jewish refugees were absorbed in Israel and the West; the Palestinians were left to fester in camps.
Several of my toes commenced to blacken and fester near the tips and the nails worked loose.
The wrong done the body politic may fester unseen, but it festers on all the same.
Only such carrion as this was left to fester upon the earth, to poison the lives of decent men and women.
The enemies of their fellows are bred, not in deserts, but in cities, where human creatures fester together in heaps.
There are words a man has no power or wish to say to a man, yet which must be spoken or they fester in his mind.