The Collaborative International 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.
Suppurate \Sup"pu*rate\, v. t.
To cause to generate pus; as, to suppurate a sore.
--Arbuthnot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin suppuratus, past participle of suppurare "form or discharge pus" (see suppuration). Related: Suppurated; suppurating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To form or discharge pus. 2 (context transitive English) To cause to generate pus.
WordNet
Usage examples of "suppurate".
He died of a purulent diarrhea, all his intestines and peritoneum being in a suppurating condition.
If the dying takes too long, the scirrhus will eventually erupt through the skin as a gruesomely gaping and suppurating abscess.
Ricky Harrison despised the dribbling shit that oozed out of this suppurating hind end of a carcass that the Reverend Jenkins was.
Nocturnal vampires of the worst kind, oozing and eyelashes and suppurating like brine.
By then the burn was suppurating freely through the Vaseline and the smell was terrific.
She was a healer and herbalist, known throughout the truck farming area for her success with fevers and suppurating wounds.
As it slid aside, Qiscep strode through resolutely, as if equivocation were as alien to him as the suppurating surface of Hivehom.
Flinx felt it as a suppurating malignancy, an utter absence of mitigating humanity.
Shield Anvil nodded, then gathered the suppurating figure into his arms and rose.
Despite the dried, leathery skin, it was possible to make out scars from what had once been suppurating sores all over the body.
The figure had no hands and no feet, the stumps showing old scar tissue yet still suppurating a milky yellow discharge.
Resolutely, I page through inflamed udders and jaundiced livers and suppurating gums just to remain safely inside my shell and marinate in righteous indignation.
Tonsillitis when the suppurating gland will not heal or, alternatively, to promote suppuration.
The sea had given them a fine crop that next year, with the suppurating dead to feed it.
The vaporous wraith solidified into solid bone and muscle, claws and fangs, into a frightening beast covered with a dark, cracked, leathery hide dappled with hideous, suppurating sores.