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third-person singular simple present suppurates, present participle suppurating, simple past and past participle suppurated
(intransitive) To form or discharge pus. quotations examples
Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies.
1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth
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”.
2018 March 11, Nick Cohen, quoting James Bloodworth, “Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain – review”, in The Guardian
(transitive) To cause to generate pus. examples