festering : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: festering	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for festering
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
festering n (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus Synonym(s): festering, suppuration, maturation a fluid product of inflammation Synonym(s): pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, 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.