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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Suppurate

Sŭp′pu-rāte, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. SUPPURATED; p. pr. & vb. n. SUPPURATING.] [Lat. suppurare, suppuratum, from sub, under, and pus, puris, matter; It. suppurare, Sp. supurar, Fr. suppurer.] To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

Sūp′pu-rāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

To cause to generate pus, as a sore. [Rare.] Arbuthnot.