Crossword-Solution: FESTERS
We have 12 clues for the answer “FESTERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Becomes more and more intense, as anger | 1 answer |
| Becomes more and more irksome | 1 answer |
| Causes increasing irritation | 1 answer |
| Grows increasingly more irksome | 1 answer |
| Grows more irksome | 1 answer |
| Increases, as seething | 1 answer |
| Suppurates | 1 answer |
| Worsens over time | 1 answer |
| Rots | 8 answers |
| Rankles | 9 answers |
| Goes bad | 11 answers |
| Irritates | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FESTERS (5)
Poverty is the inferno where ignorance festers and vice corrodes, and where the physical, mental, and moral parts of nature are aborted and denied.
And hence, when any impurities arise in the region of the liver by reason of disorders of the body, the loose nature of the spleen, which is composed of a hollow and bloodless tissue, receives them all and clears them away, and when filled with the unclean matter, swells and festers, but, again, when the body is purged, settles down into the same place as before, and is humbled.
Nor were they the only flies, for hundreds of other creatures, no bigger than a pin’s head, had fastened on to me like bulldogs to a baited bear, boring their heads into the flesh, where in the end they cause festers.
Those afflicted were covered with small, itching festers, had attacks of nausea, and death resulted in about three days.
Naples festers with the Camorra as with a venereal disease, its whole body politic infected with it, so that its very breath is foul and its moral eyesight astigmatized.
Quotes with FESTERS (3)
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
I had tried, as best I could, to forget the people who had said they loved me, and I had been able to do so only by replacing their memory with hatred for them and their crimes. Time is no healer. It scabs the wound until the injury is forgotten, but the infection festers, eating away, spreading.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1974–2023).