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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to festering:   (155 results)

Often used in the same context:
simmering, plaguing, lingering, intractable, suppurating, unresolved, gnawing, rotting, fetid, bedeviled, bubbled, decaying, besetting, lanced, irresolvable, ulcerous, thorny, resolve, stewing, nagging, afflicting, vexed, cankerous, putrefying, raging, roiling, persisting, pestilent, animosities, insolvable, deepening, percolating, smelly, moldering, boils, mired, engulfing, unaddressed, cauterise, knottiest, filth, scabby, prickly, seething, inflamed, dogging, stinky, wracked, chronic, brewing, body politic, persistent, permeating, malodorous, flared, fractiousness, riven, tinderbox, cauterized, pustule, worsening, dysfunction, mess, powder keg, acrimony, infests, squabbles, metastasizes, endemic, ingrown, enmities, gripped, exacerbating, putrid, seeping, misgovernment, wallowing, strife, wracks, inaction, crippling, flyblown, ills, dormant, underdevelopment, escalating, discord, rife, smolders, scandalmongering, mistrust, lurking, congealing, flashpoint, rampant, bickering, dissensions, miasmic, disunity, unremedied, oozing, unassuaged, ankles, back, behind, bereft, bloodlines, buren, conservation, correlations, distraught, doth, eves, exchange, feet, heredity, hooves, knees, leg, legge, mouth, mouths, rankling, unhealed, stinking, sore, bloodied, mangled, smoldering, bruised, exacerbated, smarting, sorest, standing, unsettled, vexing

More specific:
gleet

Appears in the definition of:
fester

More general:
activity, bodily fluid, bodily function, bodily process, body fluid, body process, liquid body substance

Synonyms:
ichor, infected, purulence, purulent, pus, pussy, putrid, sanies, septic, suppuration

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— Nouns for festering: wound, sore, sores, wounds, problem mass, problems, boil, corpse, dispute, resentment, more...

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