suppurate

[suhp-yuh-reyt]

verb (used without object)

suppurated, suppurating 

1. to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.

suppurate

/ ˈsʌpjʊˌreɪt /

verb

1. (intr) pathol (of a wound, sore, etc) to discharge pus; fester

Other Word Forms

• unsuppurated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of suppurate¹

1555–65; < Latin suppūrātus (past participle of suppūrāre ), equivalent to sup- sup- + pūr- (stem of pūs ) pus + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of suppurate¹

C16: from Latin suppūrāre, from _sub- + pūs _pus

Example Sentences

It’s all very trippy, and sometimes morbidly funny, studded with fan-friendly gashes of body horror, most often by way of Beau’s own angry, suppurating wounds.

Read more on Washington Post

Skin burns and bones break; wounds fester and suppurate.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

The suppurating rifts in our current society and in our democracy are directly descended from our past with slavery.

Read more on Washington Post

When, despite surgery, a suppurating ear infection spread into his brain, he died at age 46, on Nov. 30, 1900, as a new century was about to dawn.

Read more on Washington Post

The banter is believable, as are the pinpricks of disquiet and the weird suppurating wounds that increasingly mar this otherwise ordinary scene and its genial hero.

Read more on New York Times