Words and phrases that have a meaning related to festering: (154 results)
Often used in the same context:
simmering, plaguing, lingering, intractable, suppurating, unresolved, gnawing, rotting, fetid, bedeviled, bubbled, decaying, besetting, lanced, irresolvable, ulcerous, thorny, resolve, stewing, nagging, afflicting, vexed, cankerous, putrefying, raging, roiling, persisting, pestilent, animosities, insolvable, deepening, percolating, smelly, moldering, boils, mired, engulfing, unaddressed, cauterise, knottiest, filth, scabby, prickly, seething, inflamed, dogging, stinky, wracked, chronic, brewing, body politic, persistent, permeating, malodorous, flared, fractiousness, riven, tinderbox, cauterized, pustule, worsening, dysfunction, mess, powder keg, acrimony, infests, squabbles, metastasizes, endemic, ingrown, enmities, gripped, exacerbating, putrid, seeping, misgovernment, wallowing, strife, wracks, inaction, crippling, flyblown, ills, dormant, underdevelopment, escalating, discord, rife, smolders, scandalmongering, mistrust, lurking, congealing, flashpoint, rampant, bickering, dissensions, miasmic, disunity, unremedied, oozing, unassuaged, ankles, back, behind, bereft, bloodlines, buren, conservation, correlations, distraught, doth, eves, exchange, feet, heredity, hooves, knees, leg, legge, mouth, mouths, rankling, unhealed, stinking, sore, bloodied, mangled, smoldering, bruised, exacerbated, smarting, sorest, standing, unsettled, vexing
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Appears in the definition of:
fester
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Also try:activity, bodily fluid, bodily function, bodily process, body fluid, body process, liquid body substance
— Nouns for festering: wound, sore, sores, wounds, problem, mass, problems, boil, corpse, dispute, resentment, more...
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