The meaning of FESTER is to generate pus. How to use fester in a sentence. Did you know?

FESTER definition: 1. If a cut or other injury festers, it becomes infected and produces pus: 2. If an argument or…. Learn more.

Fester is a verb describing what happens to a wound or a sore that gets worse and has liquid, or pus, oozing out. Infections cause cuts, broken bones, and diseases to fester. Dead bodies can fester too — as they decompose. Things that fester have a decaying odor, and bad feelings can have a decaying effect on friendships and the heart.

If you say that a situation, problem, or feeling is festering, you disapprove of the fact that it is being allowed to grow more unpleasant or full of anger, because it is not being properly recognized or dealt with. Resentments are starting to fester. [VERB] ...the festering wounds of rejection. [VERB -ing]

To be or become an increasing source of irritation or poisoning; rankle: bitterness that festered and grew. b. To be subject to or exist in a condition of decline: allowed the once beautiful park …

If you say that a situation, problem, or feeling is festering, you disapprove of the fact that it is being allowed to grow more unpleasant or full of anger, because it is not being properly …

Definition of fester verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive] (of a wound or cut) to become painful and infected (= full of bacteria) If you don’t take the splinter out, it will fester. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.