'Festering' definitions:
Definition of 'festering'
From: WordNet
noun
(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus [syn: festering, suppuration, maturation]
noun
Definition of 'Festering'
From: GCIDE
- Fester \Fes"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Festered; p. pr. & vb. n. Festering.] [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n. See Fester, n.]
- 1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. [1913 Webster]
- Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'festering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abscess,
- adulteration,
- algesia,
- algetic,
- angry,
- aposteme,
- bad,
- bed sore,
- befouling,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blister,
- boil,
- bubo,
- bulla,
- bunion,
- burning,
- canker,
- canker sore,
- cankered,
- carbuncle,
- carious,
- chafed,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- chilblain,
- cold sore,
- contamination,
- corrupt,
- corruption,
- decayed,
- decomposed,
- defilement,
- envenoming,
- eschar,
- felon,
- fester,
- fever blister,
- fiery,
- fistula,
- foul,
- fouling,
- furuncle,
- furunculus,
- galled,
- gangrened,
- gangrenous,
- gathering,
- gleet,
- gone bad,
- gumboil,
- hemorrhoids,
- ichor,
- infection,
- inflamed,
- inflammation,
- irritated,
- irritation,
- kibe,
- lesion,
- leukorrhea,
- matter,
- mattering,
- misuse,
- mortified,
- necrosed,
- necrotic,
- papula,
- papule,
- paronychia,
- parulis,
- peccant,
- peccant humor,
- perversion,
- petechia,
- piles,
- pimple,
- pock,
- poisoning,
- pollution,
- polyp,
- prostitution,
- purulence,
- purulent,
- pus,
- pussy,
- pustule,
- putrefied,
- putrescent,
- putrid,
- rankling,
- raw,
- red,
- rising,
- rotten,
- rotting,
- running,
- sanies,
- scab,
- sensitive,
- sensitiveness,
- smarting,
- soft chancre,
- sore,
- sore spot,
- soreness,
- sphacelated,
- spoiled,
- stigma,
- sty,
- suppurating,
- suppuration,
- suppurative,
- swelling,
- tender,
- tenderness,
- tingling,
- tubercle,
- ulcer,
- ulcerated,
- ulceration,
- vitiation,
- wale,
- welt,
- wheal,
- whelk,
- whitlow,
- wound