Without a resolution of this global debt burden, systemic risk will fester and grow.
Sometimes we bury our feelings where they fester and decay, and then begin to infect other parts of the psyche as well.
Worse if you voice them to people not in your marriage - i.e. friends, coworkers, anyone else - then instead of airing your dirty laundry you let it fester.
The non-tube drainage will leave a long-term open wound on the bear’s abdomen, which is easily infected. The ongoing outflow of bile will cause the bear body to fester.
In the past few centuries the Arabs, once pre-eminent in a host of skills, from astronomy and algebra to architecture and engineering, have seen their societies stagnate and fester.
