Word Meanings - SUPPURATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates.

Related words: (words related to SUPPURATE)

• ABSCESS
  A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years
• ABSCESSION
  A separating; removal; also, an abscess. Gauden. Barrough.
• GENERATE
  To trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order. (more info) 1. To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own
• DEGENERATE
  Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. Faint-hearted and degenerate king. Shak. A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. Degenerate
• INGENERATE
  Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. W. Wotton. Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. Bacon.
• PROGENERATE
  To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race. Landor.
• DEGENERATENESS
  Degeneracy.
• UNREGENERATE; UNREGENERATED
  Not regenerated; not renewed in heart; remaining or being at enmity with God.
• DEGENERATELY
  In a degenerate manner; unworthily.
• REGENERATENESS
  The quality or state of being rgenerate.
• REGENERATE
  Born anew; become Christian; renovated in heart; changed from a natural to a spiritual state. (more info) 1. Reproduced. The earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth with a twofold vigor lift me up. Shak.