suppurate

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To form or discharge pus.
2. verb To cause to generate pus.

   to suppurate a sore

Similar words

fester quitter digest expurge purge depurate epurate putrify depurinate expurgate

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suppurated suppurates suppurating suppuration suppurations suppurative