as in to rot
to go through decomposition
a week after the battle the corpses of the fallen were still festering in the fields
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Recent Examples of fester
Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
However, before this cold war over property erupts, the film allows the shattering grief on either side to fester, allowing both factions to feel irrevocably human before things hit the fan.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
Rental scams can also fester in housing markets with high competition and low supply, or after natural disasters take place.
—Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
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Noun
But while that thorny issue festers in the background, the best women players will put on a show in an intriguing tournament that will captivate the cricket world.
—Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
However, before this cold war over property erupts, the film allows the shattering grief on either side to fester, allowing both factions to feel irrevocably human before things hit the fan.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
Verb
Naturally, each group’s facade hides a festering wound, from brewing scandal to simmering resentment to formative trauma.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
Rental scams can also fester in housing markets with high competition and low supply, or after natural disasters take place.
—Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fester
Noun
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Bencic took another medical timeout before the deciding set to have a hand blister tended to.—
Staff and news service reports,
Orange County Register,
13 Mar. 2025
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Appearance: This painful skin issue usually starts as small blisters or raised bumps on the skin that develop into deep ulcers (sores).7 In adults, it's commonly located on the lower half of the body, such as the legs.—
Cristina Mutchler,
Health,
6 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The story revolves around a town where the inhabitants have been mysteriously disappearing and rumours abound that there are ghosts under the lake eating human heads and leaving the rotting corpses floating on the water’s surface.—
Liz Shackleton,
Deadline,
16 Mar. 2025
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The window company used this preservative to prevent wood rot in both the window frames and the sashes.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The key to drawing out the umami and sweetness from the kombu without the bitterness, Stuart-Wolff explained, is to remove the seaweed just before the water reaches a boil.—
Rebekah Peppler,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Mar. 2025
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Some Skokie businesses were also unable to run their normal operations due to the boil order, forcing them to close Friday.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The composting bin contains some 250,000 red wiggler worms that feast on the manure of the animals and poultry that live on the farm, and decompose plant detritus, coffee grounds, and table scraps as well.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
8 Mar. 2025
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In a forensic context, mummification occurs when a dead body dries out instead of decomposing as normal, due to a warm, dry and well-ventilated environment, according to the National Library of Medicine.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Victims develop high fevers, deep rashes and oozing pustules.—
William J. Broad,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
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Plants with orange rust, identified by orange pustules on the leaves, must be burned or disposed of in the trash.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
20 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The top courses of the concrete block had disintegrated, and were nothing more than sand and small stones.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
15 Mar. 2025
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Players like Bobby Bonilla, George Foster, Vince Coleman, Jason Bay, Justin Verlander, Kaz Matsui, and others, came to Queens with high hopes that eventually disintegrated.—
Bob Raissman,
New York Daily News,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Plus, here are the 15 best pimple patches to heal breakouts, some of which have also been tested by Select staffers.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC News,
7 Mar. 2025
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Bentonite clay, hyaluronic acid Size: 2.7 oz Pros: Helps soften skin bumps Cons: Might be drying to some This mud mask has a blend of bentonite clay and hyaluronic acid to suck up blackheads, pimples and pollution all while leaving the skin hydrated and non-stripped.—
Alanna Martine Kilkeary,
Glamour,
3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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What doesn’t decay this winter can be mulched up next spring.—
Jeff Lowenfels,
Anchorage Daily News,
22 Sep. 2022
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In particular, many theorists have wondered how the great complexity of life can be reconciled with the laws of thermodynamics that suggest that all systems must inevitably decay to a state of greatest disorder.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
29 Apr. 2022
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