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
The prison press must publish under conditions that would ulcerate an editor on the outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It forms an indolent swelling, which tends to break down slowly and to ulcerate.
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
Her hair was dirty and matted and she was unwashed with ulcerated skin.
From BBC ● May 19, 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
The memory of her treating a farmer’s ulcerated arm the last time we visited her was still fresh in my mind, so I decided to wait and see what she could do for Pita’s leg.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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
