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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUP'PURATE, v.i. [L. suppuro; sub and pus, puris.] To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.
SUP'PURATE, v.t. To cause to suppurate. [In this sense, unusual.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cause to ripen and discharge pus; "The oil suppurates the pustules" [syn: suppurate, mature]
2: ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: fester, maturate, suppurate]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb (-rated; -rating) Etymology: Latin suppuratus, past participle of suppurare, from sub- + pur-, pus pus — more at foul Date: 1656 to form or discharge pus • suppuration noun • suppurative adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. 1 form pus. 2 fester. Derivatives: suppuration n. suppurative adj. Etymology: L suppurare (as SUB-, purare as PUS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Suppurate Sup"pu*rate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Suppurated; p. pr. & vb. n. Suppurating.] [L. suppuratus, p. p. of suppurare to suppurate, cause to suppurate; sub under + pus, puris, matter. See Pus.] To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Suppurate Sup"pu*rate, v. t. To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore. --Arbuthnot.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Fester, maturate, generate pus.

Moby Thesaurus

break up, canker, corrupt, crumble, crumble into dust, decay, decompose, disintegrate, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fester, gangrene, go bad, go to pieces, matter, mildew, mold, molder, mortify, necrose, putrefy, putresce, rankle, ripen, rot, run, sphacelate, spoil, weep