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suppurative

suppurative adjective: of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.

Adjective

suppurative (comparative more suppurative, superlative most suppurative)

  1. Of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.

Noun

suppurative (plural suppuratives)

  1. A medicine that causes suppuration.

suppurative meaning in Tamil

suppurative in Tamil

சீழ்வைப்புத் தூண்டும் மருந்து, சீழ் வைப்புடைய, சீழ்வைப்புத் தூண்டுகிற

Forms of suppurative

Adjective
comparativemore suppurative
superlativemost suppurative
Noun
pluralsuppuratives

Origin of suppurative

From suppurate + -ive, from Modern Latin suppūrātīvus, from suppūrō.

Words formed from suppurative

Phrases with suppurative

Questions about suppurative

What does suppurative mean?
Suppurative means of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.
What is suppurative in Tamil?
Suppurative in Tamil is சீழ்வைப்புத் தூண்டும் மருந்து, சீழ் வைப்புடைய, சீழ்வைப்புத் தூண்டுகிற. See Suppurative meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is suppurative?
Suppurative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near suppurative in the dictionary

  1. suppurates
  2. suppurateth
  3. suppurating
  4. suppuration
  5. suppurations
  6. suppurative
  7. suppuratively
  8. suppuratives
  9. suppuratory
  10. suppure
  11. suppured

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suppurative (page history and authors); suppurative (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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.

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