pus

/pʌs/

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Northern England/pʊs/

pus noun: a whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

Noun (1)

pus (usually uncountable, plural pura)

(usually) A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
- Pus was seeping out of the wound.

Verb

pus (third-person singular simple present pusses, present participle pussing, simple past and past participle pussed)

(rare) To emit pus.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.

Noun (2) capitalized: PUS

PUS

(UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of permanent undersecretary.

Noun (3) capitalized: PUs

PUs

(plural) plural of PU

pus meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu

pus in Hindi

fluid found in regions of infection: पीब pīb, मवाद mavād, पस pas, पीप pīp, पूय pūy

pus in Tamil

fluid found in regions of infection: சீழ் cīḻ

pus in Bengali

fluid found in regions of infection: পূঁয pũj

pus in Telugu

fluid found in regions of infection: చీము cīmu, పూయము pūyamu

More languagesFewer languages

pus in Malayalam: ചലം calaṁ, പഴുപ്പ് paḻuppŭ
pus in Kannada: ಕೀವು
pus in Punjabi: ਪਸ
pus in Odia: ପୂଯ puja
pus in Sanskrit: पूय pūya
pus in Assamese: পূঁজ pũz
pus in Nepali: पीप pīp
pus in Tagalog: nanà
pus in Arabic: قَيْح qayḥ, صَدِيد ṣadīd, مِدَة mida, مدة meda
pus in Malay: nanah
pus in Indonesian: nanah
pus in Persian: چرک čerk, استیم estim
pus in Thai: หนอง nɔ̌ɔng
pus in Vietnamese: mủ
pus in Myanmar: ပြည် prany

Examples of pus in a sentence

The sore was abscessed and filled with pus.
Clinical examination revealed coronal color change of the tooth involved and pus draining from the gingival crevis.
With a lancet, Håkan drained the slow blue blood from his leg, always fearing to find pus.

All 15 example sentences with pus

Forms of pus

Noun
plural	pura
alternative form	puss
Verb
third-person singular present	pusses
present participle	pussing
past participle	pussed
past	pussed

Plural of pus: pura

Origin of pus

From Middle English pus (15th c.), a borrowing from Latin pus (“pus”). Widely displaced quitter and atter in this sense.

Words formed from pus

Phrases with pus

Words that rhyme with pus

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Questions about pus

What does pus mean?: Pus means a whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
What is pus in Hindi?: Pus in Hindi is पीब (pīb), मवाद (mavād), पस (pas). See Pus meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pus?: Pus can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce pus?: Pus is pronounced /pʌs/ (UK).
What is the plural of pus?: The plural of pus is pura.

Words near pus in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: pus (page history and authors); PUS (page history and authors); PUs (page history and authors); pus (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pus (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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