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suppurate 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈsəpyəˌrāt/,
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suppurated, past participle; suppurates, 3rd person singular present; suppurating, present participle; suppurated, past tense;
  1. Undergo the formation of pus; fester


  1. cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules"
  2. fester: ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering"
  3. (suppuration) festering: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
  4. (suppuration) pus: a fluid product of inflammation
  5. Pus is a whitish-yellow, yellow or yellow-brown exudate produced by vertebrates during inflammatory pyogenic bacterial infections. ...
  6. To form or discharge pus
  7. (suppuration) Decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself
  8. (suppurating) (v) - festering, ulcering. suppurate (v), supperation (n)
  9. (Suppuration) Bacterial contamination of tissue exudate; pus.
  10. (SUPPURATION) [Gnoynoe] – state of metaphysical chaos. (Vladimir Sorokin, From texts and conversations held in the early 1980s).
  11. (Suppuration) producing or associated with the generation of pus, often involving an infection with pyogenic (pus-forming) bacteria.