festering 的 3 个定义
- to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.
- to cause ulceration, as a foreign body in the flesh.
- to putrefy or rot.
- to rankle, as a feeling of resentment.
- to cause to rankle: Malice festered his spirit.
- an ulcer; a rankling sore.
- a small, purulent, superficial sore.
festering 近义词
intensify; become inflamed
更多festering例句
- We denied them loans, closed them off in housing projects, redlined their neighborhoods, and left them to fester.
- I've tried to forget the grudges, the painful memories, the resentments I allowed to fester in my heart for so long.
- Low-grade insurgencies fester in other states, notably among the Karen minority.
- But they will leave the country rudderless, the victory will be hollow, and the problems will be left to fester.
- Jewish refugees were absorbed in Israel and the West; the Palestinians were left to fester in camps.
- Several of my toes commenced to blacken and fester near the tips and the nails worked loose.
- The wrong done the body politic may fester unseen, but it festers on all the same.
- Only such carrion as this was left to fester upon the earth, to poison the lives of decent men and women.
- The enemies of their fellows are bred, not in deserts, but in cities, where human creatures fester together in heaps.
- There are words a man has no power or wish to say to a man, yet which must be spoken or they fester in his mind.