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  • Bad morale has festered in the department for years.
    festered = grew worse over time
  • The harm you did to him will fester and pain you all of your life unless you're able to make up for it.  (source)
    fester = get worse
  • No need to fester it.  (source)
    fester = make it worse
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  • And worst of all, the smell of festering flesh.†  (source)
    festering = (of an injury) getting inflammation and creating pus  OR  (generally) getting worse -- especially through inattention
  • She says sometimes you have to scream out emotions; if you don't, they'll fester.†  (source)
  • But if you had the same hole and no maggots you simply festered for a while and then you had gangrene.  (source)
    festered = suffered inflammation and created pus
  • Otherwise it just festers, and eventually, you just blow.†  (source)
    festers = (of an injury) gets inflamed and creates pus  OR  (generally) gets worse -- especially through inattention
  • As were the torment, if each lazar-house Of Valdichiana, in the sultry time 'Twixt July and September, with the isle Sardinia and Maremma's pestilent fen, Had heap'd their maladies all in one foss Together; such was here the torment: dire The stench, as issuing steams from fester'd limbs.†  (source)
    fester'd = (of an injury) became inflamed and created pus  OR  (generally) got worse -- especially through inattention
  • Negative thoughts had a way of festering.†  (source)
    festering = (of an injury) getting inflammation and creating pus  OR  (generally) getting worse -- especially through inattention
  • And you left the same Band-Aid on for—God—probably thirty-seven hours by now, just letting it fester inside that warm, moist old Band-Aid.†  (source)
  • His ankle festered, maggots hatched in it, and Garrett began to run a high fever.†  (source)
    festered = (of an injury) became inflamed and created pus  OR  (generally) got worse -- especially through inattention
  • To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.†  (source)
    festers = (of an injury) gets inflamed and creates pus  OR  (generally) gets worse -- especially through inattention
  • As were the torment, if each lazar-house Of Valdichiana, in the sultry time 'Twixt July and September, with the isle Sardinia and Maremma's pestilent fen, Had heap'd their maladies all in one foss Together; such was here the torment: dire The stench, as issuing steams from fester'd limbs.†  (source)
    fester'd = (of an injury) became inflamed and created pus  OR  (generally) got worse -- especially through inattention
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