Suppurate

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  • intransitive verb. To form or discharge pus.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To produce pus: as, a wound suppurates.
  • To produce (pus).
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cause to generate pus.
  • intransitive verb. To generate pus.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To form or discharge pus.
  • verb. To cause to generate pus.
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  • verb. cause to ripen and discharge pus
  • verb. ripen and generate pus
    • Word Usage
    "Even a small nick in the skin, treated thus, could quickly suppurate into a lethal infection."
    Form
    suppurated  suppurating  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    discharge  draw  eject  exhaust  expel  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    break up  canker  corrupt  crumble  crumble into dust  
    verb-form
    suppurated  suppurates  suppurating  
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