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Pronunciation : Fes"ter
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n. See Fester, n.]
Definition : 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.

i. [imp. & p. p. Festered; p. pr. & vb. n. Festering.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Fes`ter
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To cause to fester or rankle. For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And fstered ranking malice in my breast. Marston.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Fes"ter
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf. Fistula.]
Definition : 1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharge corrupt matter; a pustule.

2. A festering or rankling. The fester of the chain their necks. I. Taylor.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913