Found 4 items, similar to festering.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: fester bernanah
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: festering pemborokan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: festering festering n 1: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus [syn: suppuration, maturation] 2: a fluid product of inflammation [syn: pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Festering 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. [1913 Webster] Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. --South. [1913 Webster] Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle. [1913 Webster]