(n.) To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
(n.) To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
(v. t.) To cause to fester or rankle.
(n.) A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
(n.) A festering or rankling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lesson for the international community, fatigued or bored by competing stories of Middle Eastern carnage, is that problems that are left to fester only get worse – and always take a terrible human toll.
(2) Such a commission should begin work immediately, so that anger and suspicion does not fester while Libyans wait 18 months for a constitutionally elected government.
(3) We are in our prime, still strong, living full and interesting lives, not stuck at home festering in a candlewick dressing gown (OK, sometimes, but only when it’s cold and dark outside).
(4) Yet just because Mr Hague’s ideas have exploded on the launchpad, it does not mean that the issues they address can be left to fester.
(5) So there should be no lifting of sanctions as long as the conflict in Ukraine festers on.
(6) Few of these plans have yet been agreed, allowing rumours and fears to fester – and when they do emerge, the government can expect no backing, not even from their own MPs and councillors.
(7) These approaches enable the children to find ways to externalise the trauma, rather than letting it fester like an internal time bomb.
(8) Depression and anxiety fester when children are not supported.
(9) A sense of victimhood festers among even relatively advantaged white men, as the rancorously popular candidacy of Donald Trump confirms.
(10) Politically, authorities don't have much reason to; it just reopens a big, festering wound."
(11) Resist the urge to stroke her brows as her doubts about him begin to fester.
(12) It seems that "festering" is OK if there is a political motivation.
(13) It remains one of Europe's most volatile flashpoints, driving away trade and allowing distrust to fester in its place.
(14) He noted the ambivalence of the world towards US military actions, but argued that failed states such as Somalia and Afghanistan could not be left to fester.
(15) The sectarian enmity that festered during the war years has been reignited by the war in Syria, which pitches a Sunni majority against an Alawite minority with links to Shia Islam .
(16) This festering resentment came to a head on 23 January 1974, when the two men ended up wrestling on the floor of an ABC studio in New York, five days before their second fight at Madison Square Garden.
(17) It festered after Blair resiled from an understanding that he would step down during a second term.
(18) There is festering local anger about culture secretary Andy Burnham's refusal to intervene, and things look increasingly grim, though the proposals' outraged opponents have one last hope: allegations that the obligatory consultation was so half-cocked that it should be subject to judicial review.
(19) One politician labelled Yau a “cancer cell” while a pro-China scholar referred to her as a “festering pustule” .
(20) But behind all the headlines about the €85bn bailout, there was another festering sore – the banks themselves were nearly bust.
Fetter
Definition:
(n.) A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.
(n.) Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
Example Sentences:
(1) But last week Labour's justice spokesman, Sadiq Khan, accused Clarke of making "inaccurate and misleading" claims about the government's secret courts bill and warned that the judge's discretion would be fettered to such an extent that it would be "a judicial decision in name only".
(2) The open margins of frog COS disks have recently been shown to possess a distinctive lattice of membrane-associated components (Fetter and Corless: Invest.
(3) Every day, our life is fettered by dozens of big and small laws.
(4) Linear dependence was found between the height of children and average height of both parents in the group of 100 619 children and parents (Fetter et al.
(5) The functional differentiation of restrictive disorders between forms with lung retraction(fibrosis, scarring) and with lung fettering (pleural thickening) is important for adequate correction of complications during the intensive care phase.
(6) Freud retraces the path of our problematic symptoms to a fund of repressed sexual and libidinal energy, whose fettered strivings results in overt neuroses.
(7) These structural features of COS open margins suggest several revisions of our earlier model of disk morphogenesis (Corless and Fetter: J. Comp.
(8) Clarke signalled that he would sweep away aspects of the statutory sentencing framework in England and Wales that "unhelpfully fetters" the ability of judges to make the sentence fit the crime.
(9) "[We] strongly urge that a way is found to limit the use of superinjunctions as far as is possible and to make clear that they are not intended to fetter the fundamental rights of the press to report the proceedings of parliament."
(10) DRGs were used as the basis for Medicare's prospective payment system, but John D. Thompson and Robert B. Fetter, winners of the 1992 Baxter Foundation Prize for Health Services Research, say things haven't turned out exactly as they'd expected.
(11) "If the media is fettered then it is in effect saying that all of us as individuals are having their own right to freedom of expression interfered with.
(12) So if they share with a rugby league club, we can’t be fettered as to when those clubs can play.
(13) They fettered his mouth with chains, And tied his hands to the rock of the dead.
(14) It is proposed that Alcoholics Anonymous's continued domination of the alcoholism treatment field has fettered innovation, precluded early intervention and limited treatment strategies.
(15) In addition to a lipid bilayer component (Corless, Fetter, and Costello: J. Comp.
(16) Syrian refugees in Scotland: cold weather but warm welcome Read more In a statement before the Holyrood members’ debate, the coalition, led by the Scottish Refugee Council, argues: “Such a scrutiny and accountability gap is serious in inter-parliamentary terms as these provisions impact on and may even alter the legislative competence of the Scottish parliament as well as in terms of fettering the capability of that parliament to safeguard the integrity of its housing and eviction law; its duties on local authorities to safeguard the wellbeing of children; and the obligations it has placed on councils in Scotland that are inclusive of unaccompanied migrant children who are classed as looked after as well as care leavers as they transition into adulthood.” The House of Lords constitution committee criticised the bill on similar grounds in early January.
(17) However, ministers do want to see a measure they regard as an unnecessary fetter on judicial discretion swept away.
(18) A quote from an anonymous author painted above the door lintel by owner Mike Beaumon could be the micropub motto: “Beer is the drink of men who think, and feel no fear or fetter, who do not drink to senseless sink, but drink to feel better.” • thefourcandles.co.uk , open Mon-Thurs and Sun 5pm-10.30pm, Fri and 5pm-11.30pm, lunchtimes Sat and Sun noon-3.30pm The Thirty-Nine Steps Alehouse, Broadstairs A few streets back from the Broadstairs seafront, this pub in a former pet shop was opened by local couple Kevin and Nicola Harding.
(19) "We have lots of rules that fetter movement," he told the Telegraph.
(20) Democratic politicians adapt public service priorities all the time – not always for the best, but fettered only by responsiveness to voters, not to badly drawn fixed contracts.