Fester vs Poison - What's the difference?
fester | poison |
To become septic; to become rotten.
* Milton
To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
* Macaulay
To cause to fester or rankle.
* Marston
A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.
Something that harms a person or thing.
(informal) A drink; liquor.
To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody
To pollute; to cause some part of the environment to become poisonous
To cause something to become much worse
To cause someone to hate or to have unfair negative opinions
As verbs the difference between fester and poison
is that fester is to become septic; to become rotten while poison is to use poison to kill or paralyse somebody.As a noun poison is
a substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.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
* ----poison
English
(wikipedia poison)Noun
(en noun)- We used a poison to kill the weeds.
- Gossip is a malicious poison .
- - What's your poison ?
- - I'll have a glass of whisky.
Synonyms
* (substance that is harmful) atter, bane, contaminant, pollutant, toxin, venomDerived terms
* poison gas * poison hemlock * poison ivy * poison oak * poison-pen letter * poison pill * poison sumac * poisoner * poisoning * poisonous * poisonwood * rat poison * what's your poisonVerb
(en verb)- The assassin poisoned the king.
- That factory is poisoning the river.
- Suspicion will poison their relationship.
- He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism.
- She's poisoned him against all his old friends.
