(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.
Suppurate
Definition:
(v. i.) To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.
(v. t.) To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore.
Example Sentences:
(1) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(2) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(3) The current medical management of children with chronic suppurative otitis media without cholesteatoma unresponsive to local treatment and oral antibiotics is intravenous antibiotic therapy in the hospital setting.
(4) Acute cholecystitis and suppurative cholangitis occur in 44% of age category 5, compared to 14-24% in other age categories.
(5) In view of the severe course seen in the presence of any suppurated pancreatic necrosis, it was felt to be of value to treat two patients by the adjuvant use of a new antiseptic tauroline, administered locally and, where appropriate, systemically.
(6) Ovaries and uteri, which become atrophic and sustained chronic suppurative inflammation in the treatment phase, showed reduction of inflammatory reaction and disappearance of suppuration after withdrawal, and endometrial regeneration occurred with luteal cells seen in the ovaries.
(7) Moribund animals exhibited a suppurative necrotizing bronchopneumonia and necrotizing tracheitis.
(8) We isolated a strain of P. penneri from the pus of a patient with suppurative otitis media and an epidural abscess on June 10 and 15, 1989.
(9) The clinical symptoms and signs were somewhat atypical and included acute suppurative cellulitis in the floor of the mouth plus localized periodontitis involving 36.
(10) There were higher mean temperatures at sites exhibiting or not exhibiting plaque (35.0, 34.5 degrees C), redness (34.9, 34.6), bleeding on probing (35.1, 34.7) and suppuration (35.4, 34.8).
(11) The authors discuss the use of donor blood after isolated exposure to X-rays in the complex treatment of 65 patients with various suppurative diseases.
(12) non-suppurative hepatic amoebiasis, or in asymptomatic Entamoeba histolytica cyst passers.
(13) Ultrasonography was conducted in 66 patients with postinjection infiltrations, abscesses, postoperative scar suppurations, mastitis and other inflammatory conditions.
(14) Amikacin treatment of 8 patients with grave diseases as well as the successful local administration of amikacin based on the therapy of 55 cases of surgical suppurations is reported.
(15) Chronic suppurative otitis media often requires hospitalization and intravenous antimicrobial therapy with agents effective against Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
(16) Stressed are the diagnostic criteria of nonresponsiveness to the usual methods of treatment, continued suppuration, and the continuing reformation of granulation tissue in the floor of the external auditory canal.
(17) The complexity of the treatment of acute suppurative pulmonary diseases has been aggravated recently by the growth of microbial resistance to antibiotics and enhancement of the allergy incidence among the population.
(18) Clinical measurements which have failed to exhibit association with episodic attachment loss include gingival redness, bleeding on probing, suppuration, supragingival plaque, and darkfield microscopic bacterial counts.
(19) Acute suppurative streptococcal pharyngitis remains a significant pediatric problem, accounting for much time lost from both school and play.
(20) In the case of the suppurative reaction, pus drained along a root surface, destroying the periodontal ligament and interradicular bone until it emerged at the gingival sulcus.