Smolder vs Fester - What's the difference?
smolder | fester |
(US) To burn with no flame and little smoke.
(figuratively) To show signs of repressed anger or suppressed mental turmoil or other strong emotion, such as passion.
To become septic; to become rotten.
* Milton
To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
* Macaulay
To cause to fester or rankle.
* Marston
As verbs the difference between smolder and fester
is that smolder is (us) to burn with no flame and little smoke while fester is to become septic; to become rotten.smolder
English
Alternative forms
* smoulder (chiefly British)Verb
(en verb)- The remains of the bonfire were left to smolder for hours.
Anagrams
* *fester
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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.