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FESTERING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fluid product of inflammation

Synonyms:

festering; ichor; purulence; pus; sanies; suppuration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

festering; maturation; suppuration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb fester

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