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
Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 15 July 2024
The rural backdrop offered a place for bigotry to fester and for Pearl to feel suffocated by her own religious upbringing, despite dreams of becoming a starlet.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 5 July 2024
Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
That festering resentment erupted when Trump visited Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria slammed into the island as a powerful Category 4 storm in 2017.
—Danica Coto, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
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Noun
With less than four months until Election Day, the leading social media platforms appear resigned to let the status quo fester.
—Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 15 July 2024
The rural backdrop offered a place for bigotry to fester and for Pearl to feel suffocated by her own religious upbringing, despite dreams of becoming a starlet.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 5 July 2024
Verb
Mexico’s new president should tackle the country’s festering human rights catastrophe, argues Oscar Lopez, a Mexican author and journalist based in Mexico City.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
That festering resentment erupted when Trump visited Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria slammed into the island as a powerful Category 4 storm in 2017.
—Danica Coto, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fester
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The right pair of socks will keep your feet comfortable and dry for a full day of hiking while helping to prevent blisters and hotspots.Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
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Reviewers swear by this pair (and Darn Tough, in general) for wool socks that prevent blisters and keep toes warm and dry.Lauren Mazzo, Glamour, 10 Dec. 2024
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The former Atlantic Club, a block-long casino and its 23-floor hotel towers have been left to rot.Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
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Children and teens are most at risk because developing brain rot from excessive screen time at an early age while the brain is still developing can lead to a lifetime of poorer cognitive and behavioral health, Manwell says.Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Add baking soda as recommended by quantity of beans, and bring to a boil.Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 3 Dec. 2024
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Miles of strip malls offer thrilling meals from all over the world: taco shops; dim-sum palaces; Indian and Pakistani banquet halls; Vietnamese restaurants that specialize in banh mi, or pho, or borrow Cajun traditions like crawfish boils.Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Food that ends up in landfills decomposes anaerobically and gives off methane–which over the 20 years after its release is more than 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in warming our climate.Marianne Krasny, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Additionally, aluminum doesn't decompose in landfills, contributing to long-term environmental pollution.Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2024
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Folliculitis can, in turn, lead to red pimples and pustules—sort of like scalp acne.Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 26 Oct. 2024
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Larger pimples that contain pus are called pustules.Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 1 Oct. 2024
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The debris – space rocks known as meteoroids – collides with Earth's atmosphere at high speed and disintegrates, creating fiery and colorful streaks in the sky, according to NASA.Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Dec. 2024
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Previously part of the Soviet Union, Chechnya asserted its independence from Moscow as the bloc disintegrated.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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Some pimple patches are a standard circle shape, but these come in a cute star for a more fun look.Katrina Cossey, Parents, 11 Dec. 2024
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Pesky pimples, fine lines exacerbated by dehydration, and redness are difficult to camouflage — but there’s a secret weapon solution that’s quietly winning over makeup artists and industry insiders: Lancôme’s Dual Finish Powder Foundation.Katie McBroom, WWD, 4 Dec. 2024
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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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“Fester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fester. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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