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Putrid vs Festering - What's the difference?

putrid | festering |

As an adjective putrid

is rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.

As a verb festering is

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As a noun festering is

the condition of something that festers.

putrid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.
  • of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.
  • Vile, disgusting.
  • morally corrupt
  • totally objectionable
  • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "putrid" is often applied: smell, odor, flesh, matter, meat.

    Synonyms

    * malodorous

    See also

    * rotten * foul * odor

    Anagrams

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    festering

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of something that festers.
  • * 1842 , Bradshaw's Journal (volume 3, page 89)
  • discontent would creep in and breed festerings and mortifications in the New Moral World, or else decree its fate more rapidly by effecting its dissolution.