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"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1864 July, “The Rim. Part III.—Conclusion.”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politcs, volume XIV, number LXXXI, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 135, Washington Street; London: Trübner and Company, →OCLC, page 68",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "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\n\"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\"",
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"ref": "2024 April 3, Philip Haigh, “Discord over Avanti West Coast is part of a wider problem”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 53",
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"ref": "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",
"text": "For which I burnt in inward sweltring hate, / And festred rankling malice in my breast, / Till I might belke revenge upon his eyes: […]"
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"ref": "1848, Samuel Maunder, “SPIDERS. (Arachnida.)”, in The Treasury of Natural History; or, A Popular Dictionary of Animated Nature: In which the Zoological Characteristics that Distinguish the Different Classes, Genera, and Species, are Combined with a Variety of Interesting Information Illustrative of the Habits, Instincts, and General Economy of the Animal Kingdom. To which are Added, a Syllabus of Practical Taxidermy, and a Glossarial Appendix. …, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, page 637, column 1",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1861, Benjamin Ridge, “Medical and Self Torture”, in Ourselves, Our Food, and Our Physic, London: Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, →OCLC, page 68",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1864 July, “The Rim. Part III.—Conclusion.”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politcs, volume XIV, number LXXXI, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 135, Washington Street; London: Trübner and Company, →OCLC, page 68",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XIX, Chapter x, leaf 394v",
"text": "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\n\"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\"",
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"ref": "2014, Lu Hsiu-lien, Ashley Esarey, My Fight for a New Taiwan, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 240",
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"ref": "2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The A.V. Club",
"text": "Here, Melanie once again provides an interesting variation on the formula, serving as a scout and ambassador between worlds. Don't expect anything new from her human counterparts, though, just the usual shooting and running and hiding slowly festering flesh wounds.",
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"ref": "1855, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume IV, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 116",
"text": "All this time hatred, kept down by fear, festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2024 April 3, Philip Haigh, “Discord over Avanti West Coast is part of a wider problem”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 53",
"text": "But the longer the problems are left to fester, the worse they will become.",
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"ref": "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",
"text": "For which I burnt in inward sweltring hate, / And festred rankling malice in my breast, / Till I might belke revenge upon his eyes: […]"
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "تَقَيَّحَ"
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
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},
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "化膿"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huànóng",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "化脓"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "潰爛"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "kuìlàn",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "溃烂"
},
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "hnisat"
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "etteren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "bederven"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "mädäntyä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "suppurer"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "supurar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "eitern"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "infettarsi"
},
{
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kanō suru",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "化膿する"
},
{
"alt": "ただれる",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tadareru",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "爛れる"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
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},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "tongako"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
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"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "iriñlenmek",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "ایركلنمك"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "zaognić się"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "supurar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "supura"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gnoítʹsja",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
"word": "гнои́ться"
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{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "become septic or rotten",
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
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"sense": "become septic or rotten",
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"sense": "To worsen, especially due to lack of attention",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "To worsen, especially due to lack of attention",
"word": "muhia"
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"roman": "usugubljátʹsja",
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"word": "усугубля́ться"
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