Fester vs Pus - What's the difference?
fester | pus |
To become septic; to become rotten.
* Milton
To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
* Macaulay
To cause to fester or rankle.
* Marston
A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
As a verb fester
is to become septic; to become rotten.As a noun pus is
a whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection.As an initialism PUS is
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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.
