suppurate
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“He is in the most favourable position for the wounds in his back and chest to suppurate easily, and absolute rest is necessary.”
From The Secret of the Island by Kingston, William Henry Giles
Supp′urātive, tending to suppurate: promoting suppuration.—n. a medicine which promotes suppuration.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The diseased action extends into the throat, mouth and eyes, while the whole face becomes swollen and erysipelatous, and the lymphatic glands under the jaws inflame and suppurate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
The lymph glands in the neck are usually enlarged and tender, and sometimes they suppurate and give rise to a diffuse cellulitis.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
Scrophulous tumours are sometimes absorbed, and sometimes brought to suppurate by passing electric shocks through them daily for two or three weeks.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Vocabulary lists containing suppurate
Beowulf
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Novel Study: Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), Lines 1905–3182
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