Near-synonym: puriform
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Purulent
//ˈpjʊəɹ(j)ʊlənt//
Synonyms for "purulent" (26 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (13)
Adjective(1 words)
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1 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- гноен adj (consisting of pus)
- гноясал adj (leaking or seeping pus)
Catalan
1 entries- purulent adj (consisting of pus)
Dutch
3 entries- etterend adj (consisting of pus)
- etterig adj (consisting of pus)
- purulent adj (consisting of pus)
Finnish
3 entries- märkivä adj (consisting of pus)
- märkivä adj (leaking or seeping pus)
- märkäinen adj (consisting of pus)
French
1 entries- purulent adj (consisting of pus)
Galician
1 entries- purulento adj (consisting of pus)
German
2 entries- Eiter adj (consisting of pus)
- eiterig adj (consisting of pus)
Greek
2 entries- πυώδης adj (consisting of pus)
- πυώδης adj (leaking or seeping pus)
Hungarian
2 entries- gennyedző adj (leaking or seeping pus)
- gennyes adj (consisting of pus)
Indonesian
2 entries- purulen adj (consisting of pus)
- purulen adj (leaking or seeping pus)
Irish
2 entries- angaíoch adj (consisting of pus)
- angúil adj (consisting of pus)
Italian
2 entries- purulento adj (consisting of pus)
- purulento adj (leaking or seeping pus)
Māori
2 entries- taemataku adj (consisting of pus)
- taemataku adj (leaking or seeping pus)
Polish
1 entries- ropny adj (consisting of pus)
Portuguese
1 entries- purulento adj (consisting of pus)
Russian
1 entries- гно́йный adj (consisting of pus)
Spanish
1 entries- purulento adj (consisting of pus)
Ukrainian
2 entries- гнійни́й adj (consisting of pus)
- гнійни́й adj (leaking or seeping pus)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; with ſtrong Convulſions, with grievous Contractions of the Nerves and Sinews in both Hands, but eſpecially the Right; with Spleen, Flatus, Vertigos and Deliriums; with Scrophulous Tumors full of fœtid purulent Matter; with ſower frothy Ructations, with Canine Appetites and Crudeneſs of Digeſtion, beſides many others needleſs to mention.
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purulent inflammation
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Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl.
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