meaning of festering
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FESTERING • FESTERING (noun) The noun FESTERING has 2 senses: 1. (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus. 2. a fluid product of inflammation. Familiarity information: FESTERING used as a noun is rare.
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SULTRY (sultrier, sultriest) Meaning: Characterized by oppressive heat and humidity. Synonyms: stifling; sultry; sulfurous; sulphurous. Context examples: the summer was sultry and oppressive / the stifling atmosphere / the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm. Similar: hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
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- tr.v. pet·ri·fied, pet·ri·fy·ing, pet·ri·fies. 1  1. To convert (wood or other organic matter) into a stony replica by petrifaction. 2  2. To cause to lose vitality or become impervious to change; deaden: a routine that petrified her thinking. 3  3. To stun or paralyze with terror; daze.
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- verb (used without object) 1. to become decomposed; rot: vegetation that was decaying. 2. to decline in excellence, prosperity, health, etc.; deteriorate.
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- Definition of Festivus. Festivus. noun. 1  a holiday featured in a Seinfeld episode which includes the Airing of Grievances and Feats of Strength.  See more words with the same meaning: holidays (list of).
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- play \-t(ə-)riŋ\. 1  intransitive verb. 2  1 : to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat. 3  2 : to become exceedingly hot in summer, the place swelters. 4  transitive verb. 5  1 : to oppress with heat. 6  2 archaic : exude sweltered venom — William Shakespeare.
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- 1. an elaborate party (often outdoors). 2. an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place). Familiarity information: FETE used as a noun is rare. • FETE (verb). The verb FETE has 1 sense: 1. have a celebration. Familiarity information: FETE used as a verb is very rare.
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- [more vindictive; most vindictive] disapproving. : having or showing a desire to hurt someone who has hurt or caused problems for you. He became bitter and vindictive [= spiteful, vengeful ] after his divorce. [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples.
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Definitions &Translations Princeton's WordNet (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: waning (adj). a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent. the waning of his enthusiasm was obvious; the waxing and waning of the moon.waning (adj). (of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases.iktionary (1.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition: waning (Noun). The fact or act of becoming less or less intense. the waning of her energy. waning (Noun). The fact or act of becoming smaller. the waning of the moon. waning (Adjective). Becoming weaker or smaller.
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- Chicago Skyway Toll Bridge, I-90, for 7.8 miles from South State Street to Indiana state line, Chicago, Cook County, IL. Related Names: Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted.
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blistering (ceramics) definition blistering (ceramics) definition. Blistering is a glaze defect that involves bubbles on fired glaze surface that frequently burst and create hard craters. The best way to avoid bubbles during high-firing is to use a short oxidation soak at the finish of the firing process in order to permit the surface defects to right themselves.
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racket fete, celebrate - have a celebration; They were feting the patriarch of the family; After the exam, the students were celebrating. carouse, roister, riot - engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; They were out carousing last night.
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- racketeering noun [U]. › the ​act or ​practice of making ​money through ​dishonest or ​illegal ​activities: He now ​faces 20 ​years in ​prison after ​pleading ​guilty to ​conspiracy and racketeering ​charges.(Definition of racketeering from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press).acketeering noun [U]. › the ​act or ​practice of making ​money through ​dishonest or ​illegal ​activities: He now ​faces 20 ​years in ​prison after ​pleading ​guilty to ​conspiracy and racketeering ​charges. (Definition of racketeering from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press).
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festivus Festivus is defined as a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 that is essentially anti-Christmas, a backlash to the commercialization of Christmas and involves the airing of grievances. The term was first used by Frank Costanza (father of principle character George Costanza) on the American comedy Seinfeld. An anti-Christmas celebrated on December 23 is an example of Festivus.
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- putrefy. 1  to render putrid; cause to rot or decay with an offensive odor. 2  to become putrid; rot. 3  to become gangrenous.
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festoon A festoon is a decorative string of flowers that you drape across a room, dropping in curves between support points. If you're decorating for Halloween, why not try a creatively spooky festoon of dried roses covered in cobwebs?
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wither Wither, shrivel imply a shrinking, wilting, and wrinkling. Wither (of plants and flowers) is to dry up, shrink, wilt, fade, whether as a natural process or as the result of exposure to excessive heat or drought: Plants withered in the hot sun. Shrivel, used of thin, flat objects and substances, such as leaves, the skin, etc., means to curl, roll up, become wrinkled: The leaves shrivel in cold weather.
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RUINOUS Meaning: Causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin. Synonyms: blasting; ruinous. Context examples: the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit / the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces / a ruinous war. Similar: destructive (causing destruction or much damage)
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smolder 1. to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion. 2. to exist or continue in a suppressed state or without outward demonstration: Hatred smoldered beneath his smile. 3. to display repressed feelings, as of indignation, anger, or the like. 4. dense smoke resulting from slow or suppressed combustion.
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- Veneration (Latin veneratio or dulia, Greek δουλεία, douleia), or veneration of saints, is the act of honoring a saint, a person who has been identified as having a high degree of sanctity or holiness. Angels are shown similar veneration in many religions.
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- Definition of festering in US English - (of a wound or sore) forming pus; septic Definition of festering in US English - (of a wound or sore) forming pus; septic dictionary
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- in·fest. tr.v. in·fest·ed, in·fest·ing, in·fests. 1. To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious: rats infesting the sewers; streets that were infested with drugs.2. To live as a parasite in or on: livestock that were infested with tapeworms.etween Omaha and the Pacific the railway crosses a territory which is still infested by Indians and wild beasts, and a large tract which the Mormons, after they were driven from Illinois in 1845, began to colonise. Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context.
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curse (kɜrs) n., v. cursed, curs•ing. n. 1. the expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doom, etc., befall someone. 2. a formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another. 3. the act of reciting such a formula. 4. a profane or obscene word, esp. as used in anger or for emphasis; swearword. 5. an evil or misfortune that has been invoked upon one. 6. the cause of evil, misfortune, or trouble. 7. something accursed.
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- The meaning of Withered in the Bible (From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) with'-erd (nabhel, to fade away, to be dried up): (1) Used figuratively to express leanness of soul, spiritual impotence, a low condition of spiritual life, a lack of moral nourishment: My heart is smitten like grass, and withereth (Psalms 102:4).
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FESTERING Hypernyms (purulence is a kind of...): bodily fluid; body fluid; humor; humour; liquid body substance (the liquid parts of the body). Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of purulence): gleet (a thin morbid discharge as from a wound or especially chronic gonorrhea).
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- Definition of fest. : a gathering, event, or show having a specified focus a music fest —often used in combination a gabfest.