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festeringnoun the process by which dead organic matter separates into simpler substancesthe ghastly festering of the corpses abandoned on the battlefield breakdown, corruption, decay, decomposition, putrefaction, putrescence, rot, spoilage crumbling, disintegration, dissolutioncurdling, fermentation, moldering, souring growth, maturation, ripening to go through decompositiona week after the battle the corpses of the fallen were still festering in the fields breaking down, corrupting, decaying, decomposing, disintegrating, fouling, moldering, molding, perishing(chiefly British), putrefying, rotting, spoiling souring, turning, turning off(British)contaminating, defiling, polluting, taintingaddling, curdling, fermentingmortifyingrustingcrumbling, declining, degenerating, descending, deteriorating, dilapidating, sinking, withering falling apart, going to seed(or running to seed) aging(or ageing), developing, growing, maturing, ripeningrefreshing, renewing, restoringcleansing, purifyingassembling, composing, integratingameliorating, bettering, improving, meliorating in 1576 |