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• n  (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
• n  a fluid product of inflammation
• v  ripen and generate pus
  her wounds are festering

• The festering anger over Gujarat serves as irresistible fodder for extremist groups who direct their message to India's increasingly disaffected Muslims.
• Another big problem: improper holding temperatures (22% of restaurants kept food either not hot enough or not cold enough), which can potentially lead to bacteria festering in .
• The first film has a screwball-comedy briskness that made Tony an outsized monster, a festering lesion on the body politic, without stopping more than once or twice to spell out .

• suppuration
• maturation
• pus
• purulence
• ichor
• sanies
• fester
• maturate
• suppurate

News & Articles

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• In Hamptons, Ethnicity, Class and Suicide Lead School to Reach Out
  An ethnic integration problem that had been festering in the background for years at East Hampton High School has been brought to the forefront by student suicides.
  June 10, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• William Shatner in Wired News
  Talk about festering and not living the truth of your life and feeling badly about yourself and being fearful that somebody'll find out this terrible, terrible secret, so he thought,Shatner says. "Like, who cares? Be gay, don't be gay --...
• Condoleezza Rice in USA Today
  We're trying to deal with a problem that has been festering and brewing in Lebanon now for years and years and years,Rice said Sunday.
• John McCallum in Winnipeg Sun
  Mr. Flaherty labelled this a Band-Aid solution and rejected it out of hand, so the wound has been festering all these months since then and today,McCallum said. "When the voters practically have the ballots in their hands, he slaps a Band...