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Is fester a Scrabble word?

Yes, fester is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of fester?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (pathology, obsolete) A fistula.obsolete

2. (pathology) A sore or an ulcer of the skin.Examples: "The larger the Spider, the warmer the climate or season of the year, and the more susceptible the wounded individual, so much worse will the effects be; and it is no therefore no wonder that people who would have a fester from a simple prick with a needle, should feel more violent effects from the bite of a Spider."; "While to the fingers and toes, which are frequently the seat of spontaneous festers, &c., irritation is kept up [if a hot poultice is applied], the skin is thickened, and rendered less liable to be permeated by matter; the heat is driven down the soft structures to the very bones and joints, and a portion of them may be lost in consequence."; "He has been away so long and so often, there has been such mismanagement under a long minority, such changes and such misrule, such a hard hand and such a high hand, that the whole place is a fester."

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.Examples: "and she for the despyte of her sones dethe wrought by her subtyl craftes that syr Vrre shold neuer be hole but euer his woundes shold one tyme feyster & another tyme blede "and she, for the despite of her son’s death, wrought by her subtle crafts that Sir Urre should never be whole, but ever his wounds should one time fester and another time bleed""; "[W]ounds immedicable / Ranckle, and feſter, and gangrene, / To black mortification."; "On the day of my inauguration, the director of the Nationalist Party county office ordered the Chungli mayor to stop trash collection. Because I could not command the Chungli sanitation department directly—it is administered at the local level—piles of garbage began to fester on the streets."Synonyms: putrefy, rot, decay, decomposeintransitive

2. (intransitive) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.Examples: "Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester."; "All this time hatred, kept down by fear, festered in the hearts of the children of the soil."; "But the longer the problems are left to fester, the worse they will become."intransitive

3. (transitive) To cause to fester or rankle.Examples: "For which I burnt in inward sweltring hate, / And festred rankling malice in my breast, / Till I might belke revenge upon his eyes: […]"transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "fester"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "fester"?

Scrabble
9 points
F4
E1
S1
T1
E1
R1
Words With Friends
9 points
F4
E1
S1
T1
E1
R1

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