Hypertext Webster Gateway: "festering"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene.
--Milton.
Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and
smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
--South.
Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children
of the soil. --Macaulay.
2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in
intensity; to rankle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
festering
adj : having undergone infection; "festering sores"; "an infected
wound" [syn: {infected}, {purulent}, {pussy}, {putrid}]
n 1: the formation and discharge of pus [syn: {suppuration}]
2: a fluid product of inflammation [syn: {pus}, {purulence}, {suppuration},
{ichor}, {sanies}]
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