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
Itzel Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
Cantor Fitzgerald market strategist Eric Johnston remains tactically bullish but is citing some festering concerns around earnings quality and the sustainability of the AI bonanza.
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Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
12 May 2026
But the explosive anger, vicious vendettas, and festering class resentments expressed so powerfully in season one remain.
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Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
16 Apr. 2026
This film has likely been festering a good while.
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
14 Apr. 2026
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Verb
The high costs of doing business in California, festering labor issues, fierce competition and crime have hit the chain hard in Southern California.
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Itzel Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2026
Cantor Fitzgerald market strategist Eric Johnston remains tactically bullish but is citing some festering concerns around earnings quality and the sustainability of the AI bonanza.
—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
12 May 2026
But the explosive anger, vicious vendettas, and festering class resentments expressed so powerfully in season one remain.
—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
16 Apr. 2026
This film has likely been festering a good while.
—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
14 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fester
Verb
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Many disillusioned locals, weary after weeks of power cuts, which causes food to rot, shrugged off the reforms as too little, too late.
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Wood can also splinter and rot over time, compromising the structural integrity of the porch.
Noun
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Ohtani has been pitching through a blister on the middle finger of his right hand.
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That happens, but the proposal on the ballot is like amputating one’s foot to heal a blister.
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Every project should be decomposed into tasks, with explicit categorization of which are human, AI or hybrid.
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The owners of Davis Mortuary in Pueblo have been arrested, accused in connection with the investigation that was sparked by last year's discovery of decomposing bodies behind a barricaded door at the mortuary.
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Or, bring it to a near boil in the saucepan, which should take about 8-10 minutes.
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Social worker Caroline Fonjock, 45, first noticed a lesion at the top of her inner thigh in April 2021, but dismissed it as a boil, nothing more, according to a report from Cambridge University Hospitals.
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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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The meteor — which is thought to be a small chunk of a much larger asteroid — was probably too small and traveled too fast to survive atmospheric entry and instead disintegrated entirely, leaving no parts of it to fall to the ground in the form of meteorites.
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In animals, the bacterium causes pustules and lesions, predominantly in cattle, sheep, and horses.
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Rust: Easily identified by orange pustules on the undersides of leaves, often accompanied by faint yellow or orange spots on the upper surfaces.
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Amy Turner LaDow, of Valparaiso, is a sixth-generation carrier of Huntington’s Disease, a condition that causes nerve cells in the brain to decay, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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On the shore of a nondescript, decaying seaside town, a boat that went missing 30 years ago suddenly reappears.
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After debuting at Coachella as an off-grounds festival experience and content playground replete with a claw machine, balloon darts, mini burgers and colorful popsicles in promotion of the brand’s Spotwear pimple patches, Rhode World will travel throughout North America and Europe this summer.
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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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“Fester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fester. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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