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ulcerate

[uhl-suh-reyt] / ˈʌl səˌreɪt /


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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 skin of the affected part may become brawny and slightly scaly, and not infrequently may break down and ulcerate.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

Although it should ulcerate in the centre, and the terrible appearance of the eye be seconded by the entreaties of the proprietor, still I caution you to continue quite passive.

From The Dog by Dinks

The skin on Kaylea's legs and feet looked dry and ulcerated, he said.

From BBC Jan. 20, 2023

The fish had ulcerated skin and internal hemorrhages; sometimes ponds full of fish were wiped out.

From Science Magazine Mar. 4, 2020

In 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.

From Washington Times Sep. 30, 2018

His biographer Peter Gay writes that, at the end, his ulcerated cancer wound gave off such a fetid smell that his beloved chow, Lün, would flinch from him.

From New York Times Aug. 29, 2014

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

And many think the mamba brings more suffering, what with the ulcerating and all.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman




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