Fester vs Carbuncle - What's the difference?
fester | carbuncle | Related terms |
To become septic; to become rotten.
* Milton
To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
* Macaulay
To cause to fester or rankle.
* Marston
(archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
* 1602 . , act 2 scene 2 line 401:
* 1611 . Old Testament , King James Version, Isaiah 54:12:
An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by bacterial infection.
(heraldiccharge) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
Fester is a related term of carbuncle.
As a verb fester
is to become septic; to become rotten.As a noun carbuncle is
(archaic) a deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.fester
English
Verb
(en verb)- Wounds immedicable / Rankle, and fester , and gangrene.
- Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester .
- Hatred festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.
- For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, / And fester'd rankling malice in my breast.
Anagrams
* ----carbuncle
English
Noun
(en noun)- With eyes like carbuncles , the hellish Pyrrhus...
- And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles , and all thy borders of pleasant stones.