To use up or waste; squander.
To drive away, disperse.
To vanish by dispersion.
To cause energy to be lost through its conversion to heat.
To become septic; to become rotten.
To worsen, especially due to lack of attention.
To cause to fester or rankle.
The condition of something that festers; a festering; a festerment.
A sore or an ulcer of the skin.