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
Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Delay a tough conversation, and resentment festers.
—Jason Richmond, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
Those issues include a shortage of affordable housing in Boston and the open-air drug use, dealing and crime that festers at and around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, an area commonly known as Mass and Cass.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 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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Baker inquires about the design of the hunchback and hovers his hand above her bulbous boils.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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Those include fish boils, something usually associated with Wisconsin’s Door County.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Aug. 2025
Verb
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If Britain continues down the path of criminalizing thought and prayer, the alliance risks being reduced to polite diplomacy while its moral core rots away.—
Lois McLatchie Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
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When leaves fall to the ground, the carbon stays in these leaves, breaks down, and decomposes and releases nutrients back into the soil that plants can take in.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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The calculation, called the Fourier transform, decomposes any function into its parts.—
Shalma Wegsman,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
15 Sep. 2025
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Research suggests that pimple patches aren't effective on cystic acne, pustules, or blackheads.—
Cristina Mutchler,
Verywell Health,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The debris collides with Earth's atmosphere at high speed and disintegrates, creating fiery and colorful streaks in the sky.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Recruits typically come from deprived areas, and as Russia’s economy disintegrates in slow motion, the bonanza offered by the army looks increasingly appealing.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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As for this new creation, human clinical trials confirmed the pimples completely disappeared after seven days of treatment, according to the team.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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This CeraVe acne cleanser is best for acne-prone skin—a major concern for teens—and helps clear away pimples and blackheads.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
29 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The heartwood in the tree’s center decays first and makes for easy excavating.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
21 Sep. 2025
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This could include some sort of novel, exotic form of mass or energy, a non-standard form of dark matter or dark energy that decays or otherwise interacts, or a modification to one or more laws of physics.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Heat, bumps and slow tire warmup can still pull the RB21 out of its downforce-and-traction lane, so qualifying and track position set the ceiling.—
Jenny Catlin,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Employees who keep the county’s bus fleet moving received notable pay bumps last year.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Festers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/festers. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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