Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies.
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Suppurate
//ˈsʌpjəreɪt//
Synonyms for "suppurate" (35 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (17)
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Translations
33 translations across 29 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐμπυέω verb (form or discharge pus)
Arabic
1 entries- تَقَيَّحَ verb (form or discharge pus)
Aromanian
1 entries- prunjedz verb (form or discharge pus)
Bulgarian
1 entries- загноявам verb (form or discharge pus)
Cebuano
1 entries- ansoy verb (form or discharge pus)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 化膿 /化脓 verb (form or discharge pus)
- 潰爛 /溃烂 verb (form or discharge pus)
Czech
1 entries- hnisat verb (form or discharge pus)
Finnish
1 entries- märkiä verb (form or discharge pus)
French
1 entries- suppurer verb (form or discharge pus)
Galician
1 entries- supurar verb (form or discharge pus)
German
1 entries- eitern verb (form or discharge pus)
Greek
1 entries- πυορροώ verb (form or discharge pus)
Hungarian
1 entries- elgennyesedik verb (form or discharge pus)
Ido
1 entries- pusifar verb (form or discharge pus)
Italian
1 entries- suppurare verb (form or discharge pus)
Japanese
2 entries- 化膿する verb (form or discharge pus)
- 爛れる verb (form or discharge pus)
Latin
1 entries- suppūrō verb (form or discharge pus)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- eeteren verb (form or discharge pus)
Middle English
1 entries- maturen verb (form or discharge pus)
Māori
1 entries- taemataku verb (form or discharge pus)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ایركلنمك verb (form or discharge pus)
Polish
1 entries- ropieć verb (form or discharge pus)
Portuguese
1 entries- supurar verb (form or discharge pus)
Romanian
2 entries- puroia verb (form or discharge pus)
- supura verb (form or discharge pus)
Russian
1 entries- гнои́ться verb (form or discharge pus)
Spanish
1 entries- supurar verb (form or discharge pus)
Turkish
2 entries- cerahatlenmek verb (form or discharge pus)
- irinlenmek verb (form or discharge pus)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mưng mủ verb (form or discharge pus)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- karre noon verb (form or discharge pus)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The only difference being Bezos was worth $60.7bn, while Bloodworth and his fellow “associates” walked back at midnight to fetid digs “with heavy legs supporting suppurating feet which over the course of the day had puffed up half a size bigger”.
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to suppurate a sore
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