Usually means: Worsened or decayed due to neglect.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. festered: Merriam-Webster
  2. festered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. festered: Vocabulary.com
  4. festered: Wordnik
  5. festered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. festered: Wiktionary
  7. Festered, festered: Dictionary.com
  8. festered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Festered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Festered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. festered: FreeDictionary.org
  12. festered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. festered: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. festered: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. festered: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. festered: Medical dictionary

(Note: See fester as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Fester)

noun:  (pathology, obsolete) A fistula.
noun:  (pathology) A sore or an ulcer of the skin.
noun:  The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.
verb:  (intransitive) To become septic; to become rotten.
verb:  (intransitive) To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to fester or rankle.
noun:  A surname from German.
▸ Also see fester


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