fester
verb (used without object)
to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.
will fester
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future tenseof fester.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The more they wait, the more rage and resentment will fester.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2023
There's the belief we needn't breathe life into our mistakes for fear they will fester.
From Golf Digest ● Jun. 26, 2017
Lezhnev, from the Enough Project, had a similar assessment: “This problem will fester, and will just increasingly infect this region to the point where there’ll likely be a new major humanitarian emergency.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2017
And while the focus will be on city infrastructure for the billions of urban dwellers, suburban poverty will fester if those individuals are left isolated outside the city walls.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2016
He will not suffer that any touch his hair, except Gudruda, and yet, if his hair is not shorn, he must die, for the wound will fester under it.
From Eric Brighteyes by Henry Rider Haggard
