| 单词 | fester |
| 释义 | fester (once / 4573 pages) vn To fester is to grow and spread, not in a good way. When a cut gets infected it starts to fester and smell bad. Emotional wounds stink too, like when you hold on to anger or pain until it starts to fester and explodes. Fester is a verb describing what happens to a wound or a sore that gets worse and has liquid, or pus, oozing out. Infections cause cuts, broken bones, and diseases to fester. Dead bodies can fester too — as they decompose. Things that fester have a decaying odor, and bad feelings can have a decaying effect on friendships and the heart. Letting bitter emotions fester often leads to their getting worse. WORD FAMILYfester: festered, festering, festers+/festering: festerings USAGE EXAMPLESSuch actions should deter other leaders from letting bad behavior fester, lest they face the same fate in a culture like Japan's that abhors shame. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The festering European economic crisis was joined by two additional crises in 2015 — the refugee crisis and the security crisis that public terrorist attacks generated. Salon(Dec 30, 2016) Fester lived off a steady diet of candy bars, junk food, and soda pop. The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016) 1v ripen and generate pus her wounds are festering Syn|Hyper maturate, suppurate mature, suppurate cause to ripen and discharge pus discharge, eject, exhaust, expel, release eliminate (a substance) 2n a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus Syn|Hyper suppurating sore sore an open skin infection |
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