Synonyms for festering
fes·ter·ing

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1. festering, suppuration, maturationnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   suppuration, ontogenesis, sanies, ripening, growth, ichor, growing, purulence, ontogeny, pus, maturation, maturement, development

2. pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festeringnoun

   a fluid product of inflammation

   Synonyms:
   purulency, suppuration, sanies, ichor, purulence, pus, maturation

Matched Categories

1. • Bodily Process
   • Liquid Body Substance
   • Medicine

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1. festeringadjective

   Synonyms:
   suppurating, maturating, rankling

2. festeringnoun

   Synonyms:
   suppuration, maturation, ulceration, fester, rankling

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1. Yim Jong-yong:

   We need to help usher in a virtuous circle by making money flow into productive areas and away from non-productive sectors by removing these festering sores.

2. Jessica Vaughan:

   I think they don't want to be seen issuing a report that no matter how they spin it points to a dramatic drop in enforcement of immigration laws at the same time there's this festering crisis at the border.

3. Former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer:

   Given my desire to resolve a festering issue, I tried to find a way that would prevent the president from further involvement while trying all avenues to get Gallaghers file in front of a peer-review board, why? The Naval Special Warfare [NSW]community owns the Trident pin, not the secretary of the Navy, not the defense secretary, not even the president.If the review board concluded that Gallagher deserved to keep it, so be it.

4. Bill Barr:

   My basic take was that this was not civil unrest or the product of some festering injustice. This was gang activity, basically opportunistic.

5. Bill Clinton:

   Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you hoped would be resolved, the political class has failed you, that’s what Donald Trump has tapped into.