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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. third-person singular simple present indicative form of fester.
Etymologies
- Middle English festren, from festre, fistula, from Old French, from Latin fistula.
Examples
“No air flows under the breast and the skin festers and breaks down.”
“The interplay is made all the more complicated by the addition of the word "festers," a word suggestive of a disgusting, fatal infection.”
“Rabbits die, ballerinas fall, fungus is a form of rot sometimes, earth festers, someone shoots monsters, warthogs gore and eyes rot.”
“As collective frustration festers over the state of things in Egypt, it's entirely possible that the moments leading to this evening's riots could have simply been the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.”
“As this mortgage foreclosure mess festers, its economic and social costs grow, and their effects will roll downstream into the future, transforming America, not always in ways that will strengthen our society or affirm our fragile experiment in self-government.”
The Washington Post: How to Fix the Foreclosure Mess (Because America Is Like Secretariat)
“The last point is especially important because the longer the situation festers, the greater the chance that public outrage will constrain government policy.”
The Wall Street Journal: Why European Banks Are Stressed Out
“If a problem festers, we cling to the belief that money, know-how and perhaps some sobering wake-up call are all we need to solve it; we don't dare entertain the notion that there's something in human nature that's causing and protracting it.”
The Huffington Post: Marty Kaplan: Pessimism Is the Last Taboo
“And so this is the context in which his variant vfame grows and festers.”
“You can feel the unrest that festers when people sense that their hope, that their wanting to believe they have a future, could evaporate suddenly.”
The Huffington Post: Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski: The Clarity Of Choices Before Us In Egypt
“Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a 1998-2000 border war that killed some 70,000 people, and the dispute still festers.”
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