FESTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does festering mean? 

• FESTERING (noun)
  The noun FESTERING has 2 senses:

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

2. a fluid product of inflammation

  Familiarity information: FESTERING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FESTERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

festering; maturation; suppuration

Hypernyms ("festering" is a kind of...):

activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Derivation:

fester (ripen and generate pus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A fluid product of inflammation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

festering; ichor; purulence; pus; sanies; suppuration

Hypernyms ("festering" is a kind of...):

bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "festering"):

gleet (a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea)

 Context examples 

Challenging aspects can also reveal a festering situation that may have been growing that you will want to address.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Such a recoil is like that of a hair, made to grow out from the body, turning unnaturally upon the direction of its growth and growing into the body—a rankling, festering thing of hurt.

(White Fang, by Jack London)