suppurate
/ˈsʌpjəreɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies."
- "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”."
- "to suppurate a sore"
Etymology
From Latin suppūrātus, past participle of suppūrō, from pūr-, stem of pūs.
Origin
- Source language: Latin