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festering   (TTS Sound)

The noun festering has 2 senses

• festering, suppuration, maturation -- ((medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus)


• pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering -- (a fluid product of inflammation)

The verb fester has 1 sense

• fester, maturate, suppurate -- (ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering")