suppurate

From Latin suppūrātus, past participle of suppūrō, from pūr-, stem of pūs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌpjəreɪt/

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suppurate (third-person singular simple present suppurates, present participle suppurating, simple past and past participle suppurated)

1. (intransitive) To form or discharge pus.
   • 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:

     Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies.

   • 2018 March 11, Nick Cohen, quoting James Bloodworth, “Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain – review”, in The Guardian‎:

     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 supporting suppurating feet which over the course of the day had puffed up half a size bigger”.

2. (transitive) To cause to generate pus.

   to suppurate a sore

suppurate

1. inflection of suppurare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

suppurate f pl

1. feminine plural of suppurato