SUPPURATE, SUPPURATING, SUPPURATION
ADJECTIVES
► BEALING suppurating → 1888 (Bk.)
► RANCOROUS of a wound or sore: festering, inflamed, full of corruption, suppurating → 1660 obs.
NOUNS
► BEALING suppuration; a boil, an abscess → a1605 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
► QUITTER ► QUITTOR pus; suppurating matter; a purulent discharge from a wound or sore → 1297 obs.
► RANCOURING suppuration, festering → 1567 obs.
VERBS
► BEAL to suppurate, to fester; to cause to swell; to raise the flesh in blisters → 1611 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
► BEELD to swell, to suppurate → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SEEP to suppurate; to ooze → 1965 Amer. dial.
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