0 If a cut or other injury festers, it becomes infected and produces pus:
a festering sore
1 If an argument or bad feeling festers, it continues so that feelings of hate or lack of satisfaction increase:
2 (of an injury such as a cut) to become infected and form pus (= thick yellow liquid)
Perhaps above all it is that expulsion that has festered for over half a century.
The issue could have festered for weeks, causing uncertainty and massive damage to the industry.
We need those for their own sakes, but we must also ensure that progress in one area is not threatened by festering disputes in others.
A committee like that exists in an area to foresee local problems and to try to prevent them from festering or reaching flash-point.
His hands would be a mass of sores and festers.
Let the wounds you inflicted on her and the insults which are festering in her soul to-day heal, and perhaps time will bring a remedy.
Discussions take place behind closed doors; the union representatives leak what was said, to the disadvantage of management; the process festers, and the situation deteriorates.
Is it satisfactory that that matter festers and festers?
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傷口, (傷口)化膿,潰爛, 感情…
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伤口, (伤口)化脓,溃烂, 感情…
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enconarse, inflamarse, supurar…
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infeccionar, intensificar-se…
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bozulmak, daha da kötüye gitmek, (yara) azmak…
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(s’)envenimer…
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hnisat…
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blive betændt, blive inficeret…
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