fes·ter /ˈfɛstɚ/
(vi.)潰爛,生膿,生膿(vt.)使潰爛膿瘡,潰爛
fes·ter /ˈfɛstɚ/ 名詞
淺表化膿
Fes·ter v. i. [imp. & p. p. Festered p. pr. & vb. n. Festering.]
1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
Wounds immedicable
Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. --Milton.
Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. --South.
Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. --Macaulay.
2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
Fes·ter, v. t. To cause to fester or rankle.
For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate,
And festered ranking malice in my breast. --Marston.
Fes·ter, n.
1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
2. A festering or rankling.
The fester of the chain their necks. --I. Taylor.
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fester
n : a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus [syn: suppurating
sore]
v : ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: maturate,
suppurate]