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Noun festering has 2 senses

• festering(n = noun.process) maturation, suppuration - (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus; Array
is a kind of activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process
Derived form verb fester₁

• festering(n = noun.body) ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration - a fluid product of inflammation; Array
is a kind of bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance
has particulars: gleet

THESAURUS

festering

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

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