0 present participle of fester
1 If a cut or other injury festers, it becomes infected and produces pus:
a festering sore
2 If an argument or bad feeling festers, it continues so that feelings of hate or lack of satisfaction increase:
The result of this amalgam of principles is a festering controversy that unnecessarily diminishes the widespread acceptability of opportunity concerns.
Wounds at the hands of enemies can create a festering anger that erodes one's spirit.
A national press portrayed images of festering, welfare-dependent ghettos where crime, drugs and female-headed families seemed to threaten the moral and social fabric.
Radowisky symbolized the specter of unknown foreign dangers festering in the largely immigrant urban crowd, influencing it, supported by it, and potentially inciting it to overt rebellion.
Sinatra contributed to this imagery with public pronouncements intended to emphasize his career successes, but which instead suggested an unwillingness to relinquish a festering sense of bitterness.
The people look after these homes extremely well, but the moment they leave their doorsteps they emerge on to eroded stairs and beside festering walls.
This is to be a plaster to cover up festering sores, to bolster up the export trade.
Those areas are festering and piled high with rubbish.
