FromLatinsuppūrātus, past participle ofsuppūrō, frompūr-, stem ofpūs.
suppurate (third-person singular simple presentsuppurates,present participlesuppurating,simple past and past participlesuppurated)
- (intransitive) To form or dischargepus.
1952,Norman Lewis,Golden Earth:Theirsuppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies.
2018 March 11, Nick Cohen, quotingJames Bloodworth, “Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain – review”, inThe Guardian[1]:The only difference being Bezos was worth $60.7bn, while Bloodworth and his fellow “associates” walked back at midnight to fetid digs “with heavy legs supportingsuppurating feet which over the course of the day had puffed up half a size bigger”.
- (transitive) To cause to generate pus.
tosuppurate a sore
suppurate
- inflection ofsuppurare:
- second-personpluralpresentindicative
- second-personpluralimperative
suppurate f pl
- feminineplural ofsuppurato
