英语词汇“fester”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	fester
释义	fes·ter I. \ˈfestə(r)\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English fester, festre, from Middle French festre, from Latin fistula pipe, tube, a kind of ulcer 1. : a suppurating sore : pustule, abscess 2. : pus from an abscess II. verb (festered ; festered ; festering \ˈfest(ə)riŋ\ ; festers) Etymology: Middle English festren, from festre, n. *intransitive verb* 1. : to generate pus < the wound becomes inflamed and festers > 2. : to become putrid : putrefy, rot < a heritage of blackened ruins and festering cemeteries — G.B.Shaw > 3. a. : to produce continual or progressive irritation or malignancy (as in a mind or population) : rankle < an injustice that will fester in their minds until the situation is corrected > < resentment that festered until it broke out in violence > b. : to develop by becoming increasingly virulent or malignant < the quarrel … burst out again and quickly festered into the definitive schism of 1054 — A.J.Toynbee > c. : to undergo or exist in a state of often progressive deterioration < comradeship can fester into hatred — Merle Miller > : reek with corruption < the city's festering slums > *transitive verb* : to exert a malignant influence on : inflame, corrupt < the Argentina situation stood out as the sorest thumb of Pan-America, continuing to fester and fever the whole system — Annals of American Acad. of Polit. & Society Sci. >
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