ulcerate
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The improvement didn't last long though, as the cornea began to cloud and ulcerate.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2015
It's just big happy crowds of harmless arty people expressing themselves and breaking a few pointless shibboleths that only serve to ulcerate young people anyway.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prison press must publish under conditions that would ulcerate an editor on the outside.
From Time Magazine Archive
It forms an indolent swelling, which tends to break down slowly and to ulcerate.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
In their growth they merely push aside and compress adjacent parts, and they present no tendency to ulcerate and bleed unless the overlying skin or mucous membrane is injured.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
The skin on Kaylea's legs and feet looked dry and ulcerated, he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2023
The fish had ulcerated skin and internal hemorrhages; sometimes ponds full of fish were wiped out.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 4, 2020
In 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 30, 2018
A woman with a prolapse, a thyroid condition, an enlarged heart, an ulcerated leg that never healed, and two sets of false teeth — matte for everyday, and a pearlized set for ‘best.’
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2012
A pair of captain’s bars ulcerated with rust hung on the man’s ragged shirt collar.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
But the sores that worried the vets were actually tumors that were ulcerating and rotting away under assault by T-cells.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2016
But the ulcerating guilt captured in that brutal couplet calls to mind something else that Kipling did: pull strings to get John a commission, after John had twice been rejected on account of weak eyesight.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 25, 2015
But fewer could name the disease spread by those pesky sandflies: The ulcerating skin infection called leishmaniasis.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2011
Just three hilarious, incisive episodes later, it was all over – quietly discharged from the schedules, leaving an almost perceptible stench of soiled sheets, rising bile and ulcerating despair.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2010
And many think the mamba brings more suffering, what with the ulcerating and all.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
