festering
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]festering
- present participle and gerund of fester
Noun
[edit]festering (plural festerings)
- The condition of something that festers.
- 1842, Bradshaw’s Journal, volume III, page 89:
- […] discontent would creep in and breed festerings and mortifications in the New Moral World, or else decree its fate more rapidly by effecting its dissolution.
Synonyms
[edit]- fester (noun)
- festerment