Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
FESTERING
pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering
(noun) a fluid product of inflammation
festering, suppuration, maturation
(noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
festering
present participle of fester
Noun
festering (plural festerings)
The condition of something that festers.
Synonyms
• fester
• festerment
Anagrams
• gnetifers
Source: Wiktionary
FESTER
Fes"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Festered; p. pr. & vb. n. Festering.] Etym: [OE. festern, fr. fester, n.; or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n. See Fester, n.]
1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.
2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
Fes`ter, v. t.
Definition: To cause to fester or rankle. For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And fstered ranking malice in my breast. Marston.
Fes"ter, n. Etym: [OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf. Fistula.]
1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharge corrupt matter; a pustule.
2. A festering or rankling. The fester of the chain their necks. I. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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