suppurate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsʌpjəreɪt/

Verb

suppurate (third-person singular simple present suppurates, present participle suppurating, simple past and past participle suppurated)

(intransitive) To form or discharge pus.
- 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:
  Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies.
- 2018 March 11, Nick Cohen, quoting James Bloodworth, “Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain – review”, in The Guardian‎:
  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”.
(transitive) To cause to generate pus.
to suppurate a sore

Translations

form or discharge pus

Arabic: تَقَيَّحَ‎ (taqayyaḥa)
Aromanian: prunjedz
Bulgarian: загноявам (bg) (zagnojavam)
Cebuano: ansoy
Chinese:
Mandarin: 化膿／化脓 (zh) (huànóng), 潰爛／溃烂 (zh) (kuìlàn)
Czech: hnisat (cs)
Finnish: märkiä (fi)
French: suppurer (fr)
Galician: supurar (gl)
German: eitern (de)
Greek: πυορροώ (el) (pyorroó)
Ancient: ἐμπυέω (empuéō)
Ido: pusifar (io)
Japanese: 化膿する (ja) (かのうする, kanō suru), 爛れる (ja) (ただれる, tadareru)
Latin: suppūrō
Luxembourgish: eeteren
Maori: taemataku
Middle English: maturen
Portuguese: supurar
Romanian: supura (ro), puroia (ro)
Russian: гнои́ться (ru) (gnoítʹsja)
Spanish: supurar (es)
Turkish: cerahatlenmek (tr), irinlenmek (tr)

Italian

Verb

suppurate

inflection of suppurare:
1. second-person plural present indicative
2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

suppurate f pl

feminine plural of suppurato