FESTER Synonyms

• cause to ripen and discharge pus

• ripen and generate pus

• the process of gradually becoming inferior

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• the organic phenomenon of rotting

• an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying

• the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation

• lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

• fall into decay or ruin

• undergo decay or decomposition

• separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts

• lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

• break down

• become worse or disintegrate

• grow progressively worse

• a state of agitation or turbulent change or development

• a substance capable of bringing about fermentation

• a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol

• be in an agitated or excited state

• work up into agitation or excitement

• cause to undergo fermentation

• go sour or spoil

• become putrid; decay with an offensive smell

• gnaw into; make resentful or angry

• a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

• unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

• break down

• become physically weaker

• having a sharp biting taste

• a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar

• the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

• the property of being acidic

• smelling of fermentation or staleness

• one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of vinegar or lemons

• in an unpalatable state

• inaccurate in pitch

• showing a brooding ill humor

• go sour or spoil

• make sour or more sour

• a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus