ulcerate
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The improvement didn't last long though, as the cornea began to cloud and ulcerate.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2015
It's just big happy crowds of harmless arty people expressing themselves and breaking a few pointless shibboleths that only serve to ulcerate young people anyway.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prison press must publish under conditions that would ulcerate an editor on the outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
The round-cell type is the most common; it grows rapidly, and tends to ulcerate and fungate, pain becoming severe when the growth has broken down.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
The skin moves freely over it, except in relation to the bones of the fingers, where it may become adherent and ulcerate, simulating the appearance of a malignant tumour.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Another woman with severely ulcerated legs had been told her legs would have to be amputated - but the diary recorded that she was cured by a herbal remedy.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023
While most people infected with mpox show lesions only at the site of exposure, those with advanced H.I.V. developed large, ulcerated lesions teeming with virus throughout the body.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
While Vitale said in a statement that the rest has helped, he will need surgery to treat the ulcerated lesions on his vocal cords.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2022
Over time, she developed pain from an ulcerated disk.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 23, 2021
A pair of captain’s bars ulcerated with rust hung on the man’s ragged shirt collar.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
But the sores that worried the vets were actually tumors that were ulcerating and rotting away under assault by T-cells.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2016
But the ulcerating guilt captured in that brutal couplet calls to mind something else that Kipling did: pull strings to get John a commission, after John had twice been rejected on account of weak eyesight.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 25, 2015
But fewer could name the disease spread by those pesky sandflies: The ulcerating skin infection called leishmaniasis.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2011
Just three hilarious, incisive episodes later, it was all over – quietly discharged from the schedules, leaving an almost perceptible stench of soiled sheets, rising bile and ulcerating despair.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2010
By April 21 Olmsted was again confined to bed “with sore throat, an ulcerating tooth, and much pain preventing sleep.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
