suppurate

English

Etymology

From Latin suppūrātus, past participle of suppūrō, from pūr-, stem of pūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌpjəreɪt/

Verb

suppurate (third-person singular simple present suppurates, present participle suppurating, simple past and past participle suppurated)

1. (intransitive) To form or discharge pus.
   • 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:

     Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies.

   • 2018 March 11, Nick Cohen, quoting James Bloodworth, “Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain – review”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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”.

2. (transitive) To cause to generate pus.

   to suppurate a sore

Translations

form or discharge pus

• Arabic: تَقَيَّحَ‎ (taqayyaḥa)
• Aromanian: prunjedz
• Bulgarian: загноявам (bg) (zagnojavam)
• Cebuano: ansoy
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化膿／化脓 (zh) (huànóng), 潰爛／溃烂 (zh) (kuìlàn)

• Czech: hnisat (cs)
• Finnish: märkiä (fi)
• French: suppurer (fr)
• Galician: supurar (gl)
• German: eitern (de)
• Greek: πυορροώ (el) (pyorroó)

  Ancient: ἐμπυέω (empuéō)

• Hungarian: elgennyesedik (hu)
• Ido: pusifar (io)
• Japanese: 化膿する (ja) (かのうする, kanō suru), 爛れる (ja) (ただれる, tadareru)
• Latin: suppūrō
• Luxembourgish: eeteren
• Maori: taemataku
• Middle English: maturen
• Portuguese: supurar
• Romanian: supura (ro), puroia (ro)
• Russian: гнои́ться (ru) (gnoítʹsja)
• Spanish: supurar (es)
• Turkish: cerahatlenmek (tr), irinlenmek (tr)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

suppurate

1. inflection of suppurare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

suppurate f pl

1. feminine plural of suppurato