All 3 Uses
fester
in
Delirium, by Lauren Oliver
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- It creeps through the streets of Portland, festers in the Dumpsters, makes the city smell like a giant armpit.†
p. 178.6 *festers = (of an injury) gets inflamed and creates pus OR (generally) gets worse -- especially through inattention
- The air must get trapped in these walls, rotting and festering like everything else in this place.†
p. 361.4festering = (of an injury) getting inflammation and creating pus OR (generally) getting worse -- especially through inattention
- But the smell is what really hits me: a horrible, rotting, festering stink, like the Dumpsters by the harbor, the place where all the fish intestines get discarded, on the hottest day.†
p. 364.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(fester) to grow worse or more intense over time, especially when ignored; or, in the case of a wound, to become inflamed and filled with pus
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)