fester

v

1. suppurate, gather, matter, maturate, come or draw to a head; run, drain, discharge.

2. ulcerate, sphacelate; mortify, necrose, gangrene, putrefy, putresce.

3. rot, rot away, decay, decompose, disintegrate; corrupt, corrode, canker; spoil, go or turn bad, go off.

4.(all of feelings) rankle, rile, gall, irk, get, get to one, get one's goat; anger, inflame, enflame, stir, stir up, work up; irritate, annoy, torment, vex, plague, bother, fret, chafe, exacerbate, exasperate.

n

5. abscess, ulcer, ulceration, noma, festering, gathering, gumboil, parulis, tubercle, Obs. apostem or aposteme or apostume or aposthume, Obs. apostema-tion, Archaic. impostume or imposthume; canker, lesion, chancre, chancroid, soft chancre, simple chancre; boil, blain, furuncle, furunculus, carbuncle, pimple, pustule, papule, papilla, pock, wen, whelk, Rare. bleb, Archaic. botch; sore, open or running sore, excoriation; whitlow, agnail