different between fester vs exacerbate

English

Etymology

From Old French festre (cognate with Italian fistola, Occitan fistola, Spanish fístula), from Latin fistula. The verb is derived from the noun, while the “condition of something that festers” noun sense is derived from the verb. Doublet of fistula.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?st?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(?)
• Hyphenation: fes?ter

Noun

fester (plural festers)

1. (pathology, obsolete) A fistula.
2. (pathology) A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
3. The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.

Verb

fester (third-person singular simple present festers, present participle festering, simple past and past participle festered)

1. (intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.
2. (intransitive) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
3. (transitive) To cause to fester or rankle.
   • c. 1599–1600, John Marston, Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. As it hath beene Sundry Times Acted, by the Children of Paules, London: Printed [by Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] in Saint Dunstans Church-yarde, published 1602, ?OCLC, Act I, scene i; republished in J[ames] O[rchard] Halliwell, editor, The Works of John Marston. Reprinted from the Original Editions. With Notes, and some Account of His Life and Writings. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, Soho Square, 1856, ?OCLC, page 74:

     For which I burnt in inward sweltring hate, / And festred rankling malice in my breast, / Till I might belke revenge upon his eyes: […]

Conjugation

Derived terms

• festeringly
• festerment
• festerous (rare)

Translations

Anagrams

• efters, freest, freets

Danish

Noun

fester c

1. indefinite plural of fest

Verb

fester

1. present of feste

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st?

Adjective

fester

1. inflection of fest:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fester m

1. indefinite plural of fest

Verb

fester

1. present of feste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse festr.

Noun

fester f (definite singular festra or festri, indefinite plural festrer, definite plural festrene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by fest f

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

fester f

1. indefinite plural of fest

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fester

1. present tense of feste (“to fasten”)

Swedish

Noun

fester

1. indefinite plural of fest

English

Etymology

From Latin exacerbo (“to provoke”); ex (“out of; thoroughly”) + acerbo (“to embitter, harshen or worsen”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???zæs??be?t/, /?k?sæs-/
• (US) enPR: ?g-z?s'?r-b?t, IPA^(key): /???zæs??be?t/

Verb

exacerbate (third-person singular simple present exacerbates, present participle exacerbating, simple past and past participle exacerbated)

1. (transitive) To make worse (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling, etc.); aggravate; exasperate.

   The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.

   • 2013, Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing (in The Guardian, 20 August 2013)[1]

     The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.

Derived terms

• exacerbatingly
• exacerbation

Related terms

• acerbate

Translations

See also

• exasperate

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exacerbate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Latin

Verb

exacerb?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exacerb?