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潰爛,生膿,生膿使潰爛膿瘡,潰爛

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fester \Fes"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Festered}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Festering}.] [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF.
   festrir, fr. festre, n. See {Fester}, n.]
   1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a
      sore or a wound festers.

            Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene.
                                                  --Milton.

            Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and
            smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
                                                  --South.

            Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children
            of the soil.                          --Macaulay.

   2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in
      intensity; to rankle.

Fester \Fes`ter\, v. t.
   To cause to fester or rankle.

         For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And
         festered ranking malice in my breast.    --Marston.

Fester \Fes"ter\, n. [OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer.
   Cf. {Fistula}.]
   1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt
      matter; a pustule.

   2. A festering or rankling.

            The fester of the chain their necks.  --I. Taylor.

資料來源 : WordNet®

fester
     n : a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus [syn: {suppurating
         sore}]
     v : ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: {maturate},
          {suppurate}]