fester
verb (used without object)
to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.
is festering
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present progressiveof fester (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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He once claimed there's something Takei is "festering, and it makes him unhappy that he takes it out on me."
From Fox News ● Oct. 16, 2021
The virus is festering at Oakdale as older inmates and prisoners with serious medical conditions live among the general population.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2020
“New England is festering with Bicentennial madness, as though desperately trying to resurrect the past to reassure ourselves that we sprang from somewhere,” Shepard writes.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 10, 2019
Is it possible that this pathetic, four-year, Dodgers TV blackout is festering into a karmic curse?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2017
But when everything is festering like the inside of a hospital—or what's next door to it, a grave-yard—it is mighty apt to turn a dragoon's stomach and make a preacher of him.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
