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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"As a man you could just bottle it up... it will fester and grow and it can very quickly turn very, very dark," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The resentments of the spring will fester through the summer.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024
There's the belief we needn't breathe life into our mistakes for fear they will fester.
From Golf Digest ● Jun. 26, 2017
It`s a wound that we need to tend to, or it will fester and poison us.
From New York Times ● May 3, 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
