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festering

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. festering (noun)
  2. fester (verb)

festering

noun

Definition of FESTERING

the process by which dead organic matter separates into simpler substances <the ghastly festering of the corpses abandoned on the battlefield>
Near Antonyms growth, maturation, ripening

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