Both Uses of
fester
in
The Two Towers
- I grieve that so much that was good now festers in the tower.†
Chpt 3.10 *
- But always they found its outward faces sheer, high and impassable, frowning over the plain below; beyond its tumbled skirts lay livid festering marshes where nothing moved and not even a bird was to be seen.†
Chpt 4.1
Definition:
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(fester) of an injury: to be inflamed and create pus
generally: get worse -- especially through inattention