SUPPURATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suppurate mean? 

• SUPPURATE (verb)
  The verb SUPPURATE has 2 senses:

1. cause to ripen and discharge pus

2. ripen and generate pus

  Familiarity information: SUPPURATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPPURATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they suppurate    ... he / she / it suppurates   
Past simple: suppurated   
Past participle: suppurated   
-ing form: suppurating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to ripen and discharge pus

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

mature; suppurate

Context example:

The oil suppurates the pustules

Hypernyms (to "suppurate" is one way to...):

draw (cause to localize at one point)

Verb group:

fester; maturate; suppurate (ripen and generate pus)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

suppuration (a fluid product of inflammation)

suppuration ((medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Ripen and generate pus

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fester; maturate; suppurate

Context example:

her wounds are festering

Hypernyms (to "suppurate" is one way to...):

discharge; eject; exhaust; expel; release (eliminate (a substance))

Verb group:

mature; suppurate (cause to ripen and discharge pus)

Sentence frame:

Somebody's (body part) ----s

Derivation:

suppuration (a fluid product of inflammation)

suppuration ((medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus)

suppurative (relating to or characterized by suppuration)