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Festering

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of something that festers.

    "[…] 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."

  2. 2
    a fluid product of inflammation wordnet
  3. 3
    (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of fester form-of, gerund, participle, present

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