Fester vs. Foster — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fester and Foster
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Fester
To generate pus; suppurate.
Foster
To bring up; nurture
Bear and foster offspring.
Fester
To form an ulcer.
Foster
To promote the growth and development of; cultivate
Detect and foster artistic talent.
Fester
To undergo decay; rot.
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Foster
To nurse; cherish
Foster a secret hope.
Fester
To be or become an increasing source of irritation or poisoning; rankle
Bitterness that festered and grew.
Foster
Providing parental care and nurture to children not related through legal or blood ties
Foster parents.
Foster grandparents.
A foster home.
Fester
To be subject to or exist in a condition of decline
Allowed the once beautiful park to fester.
Foster
Receiving parental care and nurture from those not related to one through legal or blood ties
Foster children.
Fester
To infect, inflame, or corrupt.
Foster
Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
Foster parents
Fester
A small festering sore or ulcer; a pustule.
Foster
Receiving such care.
A foster child
Fester
A fistula.
Foster
Related by such care.
We are a foster family.
Fester
(pathology) A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
Foster
A foster parent.
Some fosters end up adopting.
Fester
The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.
Foster
(uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
Fester
(intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.
Foster
(transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
Fester
(intransitive) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
Deal with the problem immediately; do not let it fester.
Foster
(transitive) To cultivate and grow something.
Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
Fester
(transitive) To cause to fester or rankle.
Foster
(transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
Fester
To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
Wounds immedicableRankle, and fester, and gangrene.
Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.
Foster
To be nurtured or trained up together.
Fester
To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
Foster
To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.
Fester
To cause to fester or rankle.
For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate,And festered ranking malice in my breast.
Foster
To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.
Fester
A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
Foster
To be nourished or trained up together.
Fester
A festering or rankling.
The fester of the chain their necks.
Foster
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; - applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood.
Fester
A sore that has become inflamed and formed pus
Foster
A forester.
Fester
Ripen and generate pus;
Her wounds are festering
Foster
United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)
Foster
Promote the growth of;
Foster our children's well-being and education
Foster
Bring up under fosterage; of children
Foster
Help develop, help grow;
Nurture his talents
Foster
Providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties;
Foster parent
Foster child
Foster home
Surrogate father
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