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Pustulate

Pustulate \Pus"tu*late\, Pustulated \Pus"tu*la`ted\, a. Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.

Pustulate

Pustulate \Pus"tu*late\, v. t. [L. pustulatus, p. p. of pustulare to blister, fr. pustula. See Pustule.] To form into pustules, or blisters.

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pustulate
  1. Having pustules or prominences resembling them. v

  2. To form, or be formed into pustules

WordNet
pustulate

adj. (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin [syn: acned, pimpled, pimply]

Usage examples of "pustulate".

His cheeks, chin, and forehead were lumped with pimples and open sores, some pustulating and some bleeding.

I'd been sufficiently impressed by the pustulated state of his adenoids, in fact, to have described them in detail to ail and sundry over dinner-causing Lizzie to go green round the gills and give her second potato to Germain-and had mentioned at the time that surgery was really the only possible effective cure.

That’s what I get for composing bad verse about the pustulating sores on the royal buttocks.

That's what I get for composing bad verse about the pustulating sores on the royal buttocks.

This time he studied the hundreds of tiny post-op scars and freshly dressed wounds as well as the areas of pustulating infection that covered half of the creature's upper body surface.