different between stagnate vs fester

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stæ?ne?t/

Verb

stagnate (third-person singular simple present stagnates, present participle stagnating, simple past and past participle stagnated)

1. To cease motion, activity, or progress:
   1. (of water, air, etc) To cease to flow or run.

      If the water stagnates, algae will grow.

   2. (of water, air, etc) To be or become foul from standing.

      Air stagnates in a closed room.

   3. To cease to develop, advance, or change; to become idle.
      • 1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock

        Ready-witted tenderness […] never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.

      • 2003, Ernest Verity, Get Wisdom ?ISBN, page 434:

        Listening to what others say, especially to what they teach, prevents our minds stagnating, thus promoting mental growth into old age.

Derived terms

• stagnant
• stagnation

Translations

Anagrams

• attagens

Italian

Verb

stagnate

1. second-person plural present indicative of stagnare
2. second-person plural imperative of stagnare
3. feminine plural of stagnato

Anagrams

• stangate

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