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Suppurate   Listen
verb
Suppurate  v. t.  To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore.



Suppurate  v. i.  (past & past part. suppurated; pres. part. suppurating)  To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.






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"Suppurate" Quotes from Famous Books



... cause is, as a rule, local disturbance in the mouth or throat, as decayed teeth, enlarged tonsils, cold in the head, catarrh, adenoids, or some form of infection of the mouth, or throat, or scalp. They occasionally accompany scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, and influenza. They seldom suppurate. ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague

... must be glad of the sweet games that our sweet God plays with His creatures, to persuade them to the end for which we were all created: so that when the sweet medicine and ointment of consolations does not help, He sends us tribulations, cauterizing the wound that it may not suppurate. I will willingly take pains about thy affair, for the love of God and thy salvation, as soon as these festivals ...
— Letters of Catherine Benincasa • Catherine Benincasa



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