Festered

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fester \Fes"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Festered}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Festering}.] [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF.
     festrir, fr. festre, n. See {Fester}, n.]
     1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a
        sore or a wound festers.
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              Wounds immedicable
              Rankle, and fester, and gangrene.     --Milton.
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              Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and
              smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
                                                    --South.
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              Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children
              of the soil.                          --Macaulay.
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     2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in
        intensity; to rankle.
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