What does suppurate mean?
Suppurate means (intransitive) To form or discharge pus..
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/ˈsʌpjəreɪt/ · verb
(intransitive) To form or discharge pus..
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
Use suppurate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Suppurate means (intransitive) To form or discharge pus..
Common synonyms include fester.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies.
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