festering has definitions from the fields of biology,anatomy
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[ adjective ] having undergone infection

Examples

"festering sores" "an infected wound"

Used in print

(Peter J. White, "Report on Laos"...)

It had a festering hole as big as a silver_dollar .

Related terms

septic

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[ noun ] (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
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[ noun ] (biology,anatomy) a fluid product of inflammation
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