Fester in a sentence as a noun

It would seem less of a cognitive load to ignore the unwanted than to embrace and let it fester.

All that's doing is putting a bandage on an open sore which is going to fester and make it harder to fix down the line.

But when we follow that instinct, we often leave the infection there under the surface to fester.

Infection can get started anywhere on/within them, fester.

Otherwise those opinions will go unchallenged, and fester in the dark.

As reddit is nothing other than a festering cesspool of cyberspace.

Letting an obscurant input handling bug fester so that they can drive people to a 41% margin product instead of a 40% margin product?

Fester in a sentence as a verb

Homeopathy was just as horrific, because it gave him an excuse to ignore his doctors and allow the cancer to fester.

But in many cases it will fester even more when it divides countries into groups that see themselves as competing for power of a single country.

You may have the luxury of refactoring all over the place, but the reality out there is that horrible code like this is left to fester until it causes real business damage.

I'm not sure about the circumstances of the OP but I do think if you allow the bullying to fester, then kids who normally wouldn't bully start looking at you as a target and join in.

It's better to allow him to exorcise this bloodlust when there is a positive benefit to humanity than it to either fester or be released via investment into illegal poaching.

I, myself, would have started, and stopped, with the last sentence: I prefer to let these little cesspools of cyberspace fester and then stagnate, forgotten as they should be, secure in the knowledge that I am doing something that matters to me.

Fester definitions

noun

a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus

verb

ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering"

See also: maturate suppurate