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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of suppurate.

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Examples

  • The blood had apparently spoiled—suppurated—of its own will, combusted spontaneously into true pus.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The blood had apparently spoiled—suppurated—of its own will, combusted spontaneously into true pus.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • The blood had apparently spoiled—suppurated—of its own will, combusted spontaneously into true pus.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • It boiled and suppurated as the Tories tore themselves apart over Europe.

    The teamwork is admirable. But it will kill the Lib Dems 2010

  • SANCHO PANZA; but I know that my first impressions of them were picked up at that time, and that they were somehow or other connected with a suppurated abscess that some boy had come home with, in consequence of his

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • That great hideous form covered with pustules from which infant skulls suppurated could no more be the true aspect of Kina than the sleeping beauties had been.

    Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

  • One smoke ring suppurated into another and there was a pause.

    between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998

  • He blistered, peeled, blistered again, peeled again, oozed precious water from the healing layers, and scratched, and suppurated.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • The bonds were part food and part tobacco and part help - the King had cured the tropical ulcers on Mac's ankles with salvarsan, cured them in two days, that which had suppurated for two years.

    King Rat Clavell, James, 1924- 1962

  • J. Kent, under whose treatment the tumour soon suppurated, and discharged upwards of _three quarts_ of matter the first time, and not less than _two gallons_ before the cure was completed.

    Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment John Kent

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