Definition of Festering

1. Noun. (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus.

Exact synonyms: Maturation, Suppuration
Category relationships: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Generic synonyms: Activity, Bodily Function, Bodily Process, Body Process
Derivative terms: Fester, Maturate, Mature, Suppurate, Suppurate

2. Noun. A fluid product of inflammation.
Exact synonyms: Ichor, Purulence, Pus, Sanies, Suppuration
Generic synonyms: Bodily Fluid, Body Fluid, Humor, Humour, Liquid Body Substance
Specialized synonyms: Gleet
Derivative terms: Ichorous, Sanious, Suppurate, Suppurate

Definition of Festering

1. Verb. (present participle of fester) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Festering

1. fester [v] - See also: fester

Lexicographical Neighbors of Festering

fessed up
fesses
fesses up
fessing
fessing up
fessitude
fesswise
fest
festa
festal
festally
festals
festas
fester
festered
festering (current term)
festeringly
festerment
festerments
festers
festinant
festinate
festinated
festinately
festinates
festinating
festinating gait
festination
festinations
festival

Literary usage of Festering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"On the thirteen days' journey to the Iro- quois country, he suffered from heat, hunger, and blows, his wounds festering and swarming with worms. ..."

2. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"... whose festering corpse kept his silent and deserted wigwam inodorous company, Philip's great triumverate had kept him company to the Happy Hunting- ..."

3. Intervention Or Neglect: The United States and Central America Beyond the 1980s by Linda Robinson (1991)
"... 6 PANAMA AND THE UNITED STATES: FROM SYMBIOSIS TO festering CRISIS In December 1989, after two years of simmering crisis and US policy failures, ..."

4. Bothwell: A Tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874)
"... yet above its gates Where I shall see them festering if I live. [Exeunt. SCENE V.—EDINBURGH. A ROOM IN THE PROVOST'S HOUSE. Enter MAITLAND and PROVOST. ..."

5. Bothwell: A Tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874)
"... And lead me to my loving town again That bears your heads not yet above its gates Where I shall see them festering if I live. [Exeunt. ..."

6. America and the Canal Title; Or, An Examination, Sifting and Interpretation by Joseph C. Freehoff (1916)
"Lorraine revanche festering to the south of this beneficent enterprise? It is for our Senate to determine. ..."

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