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  fes⋅ter   [fes-ter] Show IPA
  –verb (used without object)
  1. to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.
  2. to cause ulceration, as a foreign body in the flesh.
  3. to putrefy or rot.
  4. to rankle, as a feeling of resentment.
  –verb (used with object)
  5. to cause to rankle: Malice festered his spirit.
  –noun
  6. an ulcer; a rankling sore.
  7. a small, purulent, superficial sore.
  Origin:
  1350–1400; (n.) ME festir, festre < AF, OF festre < L fistula fistula (for -l- > -r- cf. chapter ); (v.) ME festryn, deriv. of the n. or < OF festrir

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  • yea, not quite reached that stage yet.dinnum

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