From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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Wounds immedicable
Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. --Milton.
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Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and
smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
--South.
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Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children
of the soil. --Macaulay.
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2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in
intensity; to rankle.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
festering
n 1: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess
or a vesicle and the discharge of pus [syn: {festering},
{suppuration}, {maturation}]
2: a fluid product of inflammation [syn: {pus}, {purulence},
{suppuration}, {ichor}, {sanies}, {festering}]
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