as in rots
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 festers
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
28 May 2026
Throughout this episode, Austin’s bitterness festers.
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Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
It festers as part of a long, continuous line.
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Theater Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
29 Mar. 2026
When Trimmers fail to recognize this, evil festers.
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David Brooks,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
Steep declines in timber harvests, meant to save Oregon’s last ancient forests, ripped open an urban-rural divide that still festers.
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Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
20 Mar. 2026
Larger debate over the French retreat and the role of disease still festers, however.
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Andrea Tamayo,
Scientific American,
24 Oct. 2025
South End residents and retailers said at a City Council hearing last Friday that businesses in Boston are being battered by shoplifting to feed the addiction that festers daily at the Mass and Cass drug market.
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Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
21 Oct. 2025
Delay a tough conversation, and resentment festers.
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Jason Richmond,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
What occurs over the course of the weekend is what happens as grief festers into rage.
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Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
28 May 2026
Throughout this episode, Austin’s bitterness festers.
—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
It festers as part of a long, continuous line.
—
Theater Critic,
San Francisco Chronicle,
29 Mar. 2026
When Trimmers fail to recognize this, evil festers.
—
David Brooks,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
Steep declines in timber harvests, meant to save Oregon’s last ancient forests, ripped open an urban-rural divide that still festers.
—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
20 Mar. 2026
Larger debate over the French retreat and the role of disease still festers, however.
—
Andrea Tamayo,
Scientific American,
24 Oct. 2025
South End residents and retailers said at a City Council hearing last Friday that businesses in Boston are being battered by shoplifting to feed the addiction that festers daily at the Mass and Cass drug market.
—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
21 Oct. 2025
Delay a tough conversation, and resentment festers.
—
Jason Richmond,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for festers
Noun
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From neighborhood po' boy counters to sprawling crawfish boils, some of the city's most memorable meals are messy and meant to be shared.
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Bonds are tested and betrayal boils.
Verb
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Parents used to tell their children that television rots the brain; now it’s considered a medium for legitimate art.
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Training plants to stay off the ground instead of trailing prevents many common fungal diseases, fruit spots, and rots.
Noun
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In animals, the bacterium causes pustules and lesions, predominantly in cattle, sheep, and horses.
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In fact, one of the most common triggers of rosacea, which is characterized by flushing, swelling, spider veins, papules, and pustules, is exposure to sunlight.
Verb
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The research team enabled a room-temperature, four-electron chemical reaction path that forms and decomposes lithium oxide, which expands available energy storage.
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Organic material trapped in reservoirs accumulates and decomposes over time, releasing methane — a potent greenhouse gas that significantly contributes to global warming, Fernández-Garrido told CNN.
Noun
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Thabi Hlela of African Alabaster Botanical Skincare uses marula and shea butter in formulations that have cleared pimples and reversed early aging signs in customers who had tried pharmaceutical alternatives.
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Well, in Traditional Chinese Medicine, pimples are related to internal imbalances of heat and blood stagnation.
Verb
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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.
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Even those who can afford to stay suffer losses in home equity and lifestyle as the community around them disintegrates or disappears.
Noun
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As viewers know, her journey to get to happily ever after was filled with a lot of bumps in the road, as well as another suitor, William Ryder (Laurie Davidson).
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Wheeler grinned before Hill exchanged high-fives and chest bumps with right fielder Brandon Marsh.
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Europe will not be able to defend itself militarily if democracy decays internally.
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In theory, beryllium-8 normally decays into two helium-4 nuclei.
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“Festers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/festers. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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