fes·ter /ˈfɛstɚ/
 (vi.)潰爛,生膿,生膿(vt.)使潰爛膿瘡,潰爛


 fes·ter /ˈfɛstɚ/ 名詞
 淺表化膿


 Fes·ter v. i. [imp. & p. p. Festered p. pr. & vb. n. Festering.]
 1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
 Wounds immedicable
 Rankle, and fester, and gangrene.   --Milton.
    Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.   --South.
    Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.   --Macaulay.
 2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.


 Fes·ter, v. t. To cause to fester or rankle.
 For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate,
 And festered ranking malice in my breast.   --Marston.


 Fes·ter, n.
 1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
 2. A festering or rankling.
    The fester of the chain their necks.   --I. Taylor.

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 fester
      n : a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus [syn: {suppurating
          sore]
      v : ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: maturate,
           suppurate]