suppurate

Definition

To form or discharge pus.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies."
• "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”."
• "to suppurate a sore"