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festering
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festering
abscess, adulteration, algesia, algetic, angry, aposteme, bad, bed sore, befouling, blain, bleb, blister, boil, bubo, bulla, bunion, burning, canker, canker sore, cankered, carbuncle, carious, chafed, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, cold sore, contamination, corrupt, corruption, decayed, decomposed, defilement, envenoming, eschar, felon, fester, fever blister, fiery, fistula, foul, fouling, furuncle, furunculus, galled, gangrened, gangrenous, gathering, gleet, gone bad, gumboil, hemorrhoids, ichor, infection, inflamed, inflammation, irritated, irritation, kibe, lesion, leukorrhea, matter, mattering, misuse, mortified, necrosed, necrotic, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peccant, peccant humor, perversion, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, poisoning, pollution, polyp, prostitution, purulence, purulent, pus, pussy, pustule, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rankling, raw, red, rising, rotten, rotting, running, sanies, scab, sensitive, sensitiveness, smarting, soft chancre, sore, sore spot, soreness, sphacelated, spoiled, stigma, sty, suppurating, suppuration, suppurative, swelling, tender, tenderness, tingling, tubercle, ulcer, ulcerated, ulceration, vitiation, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, woundFor further exploring for "festering" in Webster Dictionary Online