Suppurate (verb)
sup-ur-ayt
Undergo the formation of pus; fester.
Late Middle English (in the sense ‘cause to form pus’): based on Latin sub- ‘below’ + pus, pur- ‘pus’.
Example sentences
“The wound has suppurated, of that there can be no doubt.”
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