suppurate

Verb

suppurate (third-person singular simple present suppurates, present participle suppurating, simple past and past participle suppurated)

1. (intransitive) To form or discharge pus.
   • Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies.1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth
   • The only difference being Bezos was worth $60.7bn, while Bloodworth and his fellow “associates” walked back at midnight to fetid digs “with heavy legs supporting suppurating feet which over the course of the day had puffed up half a size bigger”.2018 March 11, Nick Cohen, quoting James Bloodworth, “Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain – review”, in The Guardian
2. (transitive) To cause to generate pus.
   • to suppurate a sore