Definitions for fester

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fester fes·ter

Spelling: [fes-ter]

IPA: /ˈfɛs tər/

Fester is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in fester (eefrst).

Definitions for fester

noun

1. an ulcer; a rankling sore.
2. a small, purulent, superficial sore.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to rankle:

verb (used without object)

1. to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.
2. to cause ulceration, as a foreign body in the flesh.
3. to putrefy or rot.
4. to rankle, as a feeling of resentment.

Origin of fester

1350-1400; (noun) Middle English festir, festre Anglo-French, Old French festre Latin fistula fistula (for -l- > -r- cf. chapter); (

Examples for fester

But they will leave the country rudderless, the victory will be hollow, and the problems will be left to fester.

We denied them loans, closed them off in housing projects, redlined their neighborhoods, and left them to fester.

I've tried to forget the grudges, the painful memories, the resentments I allowed to fester in my heart for so long.

As for the Tartar dead, they were left to fester on the field.

I'd not ha' clinched the nail, if I saw it was goin' to fester you!

Like the surgeon's ray on a fester, German light has played on the sore spots.

Jewish refugees were absorbed in Israel and the West; the Palestinians were left to fester in camps.

Undercote, or undercoat; fester under the skin (coat is "cutis," skin).

Yet his heart still seemed to fester with the venom of the dagger.

It is this length of time during which the allegations were allowed to fester that is so puzzling.