festering是什么意思

If you say that a situation, problem, or feeling is festering, you disapprove of the fact that it is being allowed to grow more unpleasant or full of anger, because it is not being properly recognized or dealt with.

If a wound festers, it becomes infected, making it worse.

If you say that food is festering, you mean that it is decaying in a very unpleasant way.