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fester
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- a week after the battle the corpses of the fallen were still festering in the fields
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Phrases Synonymous with fester
- fall apart,
- go to seed
- (or run to seed)
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“Fester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fester. Accessed 28 May. 2022.
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