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: --
One is that we should not have a festering mass of people becoming increasingly bitter and disillusioned and bored.
Any misunderstanding between us will always be a festering sore in the body politic of the world.
Blackmailing threats of resignation indicate a weakness which is a running sore already and will develop into a festering boil.
It is no good the parties concerned imagining that they can simply leave this problem to go festering on.
It was left festering until the present outbreak almost inevitably arose.
Nor can we tackle the sore of unemployment which is festering on the body of our economy.
It never did so in any effective way, and this sore has gone on festering for the best part of a decade.
Those areas are festering and piled high with rubbish.
