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