suppurate
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The diseased action extends into the throat, mouth and eyes, while the whole face becomes swollen and erysipelatous, and the lymphatic glands under the jaws inflame and suppurate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
After a wound begins to suppurate it does little good to put antiseptics into it, as they cause considerable irritation, and under no circumstances do they put an end to the pus formation.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)
The absorbed fluids in their course to the veins in the scrophula are arrested in the lymphatic or conglobate glands; which swell, and after a great length of time, inflame and suppurate.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Supp′urātive, tending to suppurate: promoting suppuration.—n. a medicine which promotes suppuration.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The skin may suppurate or slough more or less over the areas of greatest tension or where it is irritated by blows or pressure.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
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Beowulf
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Novel Study: Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), Lines 1905–3182
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