0 present participle of suppurate
1 (of an injury, etc.) to form or give out a thick, yellow liquid because of infection:
Suppurating wounds are also a potential source of environmental contamination with infectious bacilli.
He mentioned the case of a young man who was discharged when suffering from a suppurating wound and had £2 a week disability pension.
He, however, continued eating greedily, as if he were really hungry, and took no notice whatever of the suppurating abscess.
What we are dealing with here is a sort of suppurating swelling that breaks out from time to time.
If they are suppurating, the dressings are changed by the district nurse; if they are merely quiescent, they are changed by the home carer.
He could not wear his artificial leg, because the stump was suppurating, and he had to have a further operation to get rid of that.
Is it any wonder that many of our overseas possessions are defaced by suppurating slums, dreadful poverty, and by disease, which could be prevented if economic conditions were improved?
It is like a suppurating wound.
