Dictionary

suppurate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌpjəreɪt/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To form or discharge pus.
   • 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:
   • Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies. 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
2. (transitive) To cause to generate pus.
   • to suppurate a sore

Forms

Deriveds

unsuppurated

Translations (34)

ar تَقَيَّحَ (form or discharge pus) · ota ایركلنمك (form or discharge pus) · ja 化膿する (form or discharge pus) · it suppurare (form or discharge pus) · pl ropieć (form or discharge pus) · la suppūrō (form or discharge pus) · gl supurar (form or discharge pus) · tr irinlenmek (form or discharge pus) · hu elgennyesedik (form or discharge pus) · mi taemataku (form or discharge pus) · wyi karre noon (form or discharge pus) · ru гнои́ться (form or discharge pus) · tr cerahatlenmek (form or discharge pus) · ro puroia (form or discharge pus) · es supurar (form or discharge pus) · vi mưng mủ (form or discharge pus) · ca supurar (form or discharge pus) · lb eeteren (form or discharge pus) · rup prunjedz (form or discharge pus) · bg загноявам (form or discharge pus) · el πυορροώ (form or discharge pus) · ja 爛れる (form or discharge pus) · cmn 化膿 /化脓 (form or discharge pus) · fi märkiä (form or discharge pus) · enm maturen (form or discharge pus) · grc ἐμπυέω (form or discharge pus) · cmn 潰爛 /溃烂 (form or discharge pus) · io pusifar (form or discharge pus) · fr suppurer (form or discharge pus) · de eitern (form or discharge pus) · cs hnisat (form or discharge pus) · ceb ansoy (form or discharge pus) · ro supura (form or discharge pus) · pt supurar (form or discharge pus)