(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.
Putrefy
Definition:
(v. t.) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
(v. t.) To corrupt; to make foul.
(v. t.) To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.
(v. i.) To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty-five blood samples with COHb concentrations of 40% and 70% were allowed to putrefy in order to measure the time-dependent changes in COHb values.
(2) Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to perform because of the absence of blood and urine.
(3) To their left, the killers entered the room of the centre's director, who made it outside, where the pond of his blood putrefied on the cement.
(4) Mass graves commonly contain hundreds of putrefying bodies, which bear evidence of torture and extrajudicial execution.
(5) Bromazepam and levomepromazine were identified and assayed in the remains of cerebral tissue, in the clavicle of a putrefied cadaver, and in the fly larvae found on and in the corpse.
(6) For centuries, the Sioux and other tribes used it to treat venomous snake and insect bites, ulcers, sores and any disease (notably syphilis) involving foul-smelling discharges or putrefying flesh.
(7) Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to achieve because of the absence of blood and urine.
(8) When the blood was putrefied, two or three pieces of membranes filters were needed because of choking membrane pore.
(9) The evidentiary specimens chosen for DNA were classified according to substrate (scrapings, plastic bags, synthetics, denim, and carpet) and according to a subjective evaluation of the condition of the stain (soiled, damp, or putrefied) and to its size (small or large).
(10) This method was found to be useful even if applied to old or putrefied blood samples.
(11) The method used would seem to be very useful for determination of methamphetamine and amphetamine in marked putrefied biological materials.
(12) A forensic study was performed on the toxicological effects of triazolam using putrefied tissues.
(13) In case of putrefied liver lipid content is increased slightly but in all periods of putrefaction lipid content in the liver in case of fat dystrophy remains significantly higher than in controls.
(14) In this study, morphine and phenobarbital were simultaneously identified and assayed in several tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the fly larvae of Calliphoridae found on the corpse.
(15) Finding a putrefying corpse in a lock-up might not feature on most people’s list of job satisfaction criteria, but things are different in Happy Valley (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1) .
(16) Five drugs (triazolam, oxazepam, phenobarbital, alimemazine, and clomipramine) were identified and assayed in some tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the maggots found on and in the body.
(17) No RFLP profiles could be obtained from putrefied soft tissues.
(18) Samples of thoracic fluid were obtained at regular intervals from the putrefying bodies of dead dogs.
(19) And that's how I picture you when I read your comments – as a shovelful-of-putrefied-matter-to-be making the very least of its brief window of consciousness.
(20) A reliable and sensitive method has been developed to assess the concentrations of the hypnotic drug triazolam in human tissues, including putrefied tissues.