Antonyms for festered

Grammar : Verb

Spell : fes-ter

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɛs tər

Definition of festered

Origin : late 14c., from Old French festre "small sore discharging pus," from Latin fistula "pipe, ulcer" (see fistula). The noun is from c.1300. Related: Festered; festering.

verb intensify; become inflamed

Example sentences :

It had festered like an abscess and the abscess had burst, splashing every one.
Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. » by Guy de Maupassant

Latterly the wound had festered, and gave him agonising pain.
Extract from : « The Lively Poll » by R.M. Ballantyne

Her wounds stiffened and festered from imbedded shot, and she was dry and feverish.
Extract from : « The Yellow Horde » by Hal G. Evarts

It festered so deeply that she could not speak of it to Johnny's father.
Extract from : « An Old Chester Secret » by Margaret Deland

I had this grievance, and it festered and raised the whole temperature of my hate.
Extract from : « Foe-Farrell » by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

But Ajax saw nothing but what had festered so long in his own mind.
Extract from : « Bunch Grass » by Horace Annesley Vachell

I had a glimpse of decks piled thick with her festered dead.
Extract from : « The Purple Cloud » by M.P. Shiel

The vinegar of criticism would have festered the wounds of his vanity; the art of (must I call it) flattery healed them.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 » by Various

All this time, however, the memory of that dirty trick he had helped to play upon an honest gentleman, festered in his memory.
Extract from : « Bunch Grass » by Horace Annesley Vachell

In his disordered brain a fixed idea had festered into the mandate of a single word: "Revengeance."
Extract from : « When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry » by Charles Neville Buck

Synonyms for festered

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