festering
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