'Fester' definitions:
Definition of 'fester'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Fester'
From: GCIDE
- Fester \Fes"ter\, n. [OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf. Fistula.]
- 1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A festering or rankling. [1913 Webster]
- The fester of the chain their necks. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fester'
From: GCIDE
- Fester \Fes"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Festered; p. pr. & vb. n. Festering.] [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n. See Fester, n.]
- 1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. [1913 Webster]
- Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fester'
From: GCIDE
- Fester \Fes`ter\, v. t. To cause to fester or rankle. [1913 Webster]
- For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And festered ranking malice in my breast. --Marston. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fester'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscess,
- afflict,
- agonize,
- ail,
- aposteme,
- bed sore,
- bite,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blister,
- boil,
- break up,
- bubo,
- bulla,
- bunion,
- burn,
- canker,
- canker sore,
- carbuncle,
- chafe,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- chilblain,
- cold sore,
- convulse,
- corrupt,
- crucify,
- crumble,
- crumble into dust,
- cut,
- decay,
- decompose,
- disintegrate,
- distress,
- eschar,
- excruciate,
- fall into decay,
- fall to pieces,
- felon,
- festering,
- fever blister,
- fistula,
- fret,
- furuncle,
- furunculus,
- gall,
- gangrene,
- gathering,
- give pain,
- gnaw,
- go bad,
- go to pieces,
- grate,
- grind,
- gripe,
- gumboil,
- harrow,
- hemorrhoids,
- hurt,
- inflame,
- inflict pain,
- irritate,
- kibe,
- kill by inches,
- lacerate,
- lesion,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- matter,
- mildew,
- mold,
- molder,
- mortify,
- necrose,
- nip,
- ooze,
- pain,
- papula,
- papule,
- paronychia,
- parulis,
- petechia,
- pierce,
- piles,
- pimple,
- pinch,
- pock,
- polyp,
- prick,
- prolong the agony,
- pustule,
- put to torture,
- putrefy,
- putresce,
- rack,
- rankle,
- rasp,
- ripen,
- rising,
- rot,
- rub,
- run,
- scab,
- smoulder,
- soft chancre,
- sore,
- sphacelate,
- spoil,
- stab,
- stigma,
- sting,
- sty,
- suppurate,
- suppuration,
- swelling,
- torment,
- torture,
- tubercle,
- tweak,
- twist,
- ulcer,
- ulcerate,
- ulceration,
- wale,
- weep,
- welt,
- wheal,
- whelk,
- whitlow,
- wound,
- wring