festerverb [ I ]
uk/ˈfes.tər/us/ˈfes.tɚ/fester verb [ I ] (INJURY)
If a cut or other injury festers, it becomes infected and produces pus:
a festering sore
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Passing on illness & causing disease
- carrier
- carry
- catch
- epidemic
- harbour
- incubate
- infect
- infected
- infest
- insalubrious
- mediastinum
- non-communicable
- prophylactic
- transmission
- transmit
- unhygienic
- vector
- verminous
- virulence
- virulent
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fester verb [ I ] (FEELING)
If an argument or bad feeling festers, it continues so that feelings of hate or lack of satisfaction increase:
It's better to express your anger than let it fester inside you.
a festering argument/dispute
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Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- pile
- rack
- scale sth up
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
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