Meaning & use
Suppurating
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Forming or discharging pus, as an infected wound does.
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The nurse cleaned the suppurating wound twice a day to prevent further infection.
By the third day, the untreated cut had begun suppurating badly.
A note on using this word
'Suppurating' comes from Latin 'suppurare,' meaning to form pus beneath the skin, and is used almost exclusively in medical or clinical contexts.
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