Fester

Quick meaning: Fester is a noun meaning (pathology, obsolete) A fistula.

Meaning

(pathology, obsolete) A fistula.

More Meanings

1. (pathology) A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
2. The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.
3. (intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.
4. (intransitive) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
5. (transitive) To cause to fester or rankle.

Example Sentences

Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester.

[W]ounds immedicable / Ranckle, and feſter, and gangrene, / To black mortification.

He has been away so long and so often, there has been such mismanagement under a long minority, such changes and such misrule, such a hard hand and such a high hand, that the whole place is a fester.

Here, Melanie once again provides an interesting variation on the formula, serving as a scout and ambassador between worlds. Don't expect anything new from her human counterparts, though, just the usual shooting and running and hiding slowly festering flesh wounds.

Word Forms

• festers
• festering
• festered

Synonyms for fester

Depending on context, synonyms include putrefy, rot, decay, decompose, suppurate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include suppurate, rankle, incubate, smoulder, propagate, proliferate.

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