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ulcerate

ulcerate adjective: having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.

Adjective

ulcerate (comparative more ulcerate, superlative most ulcerate)

  1. Having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.

Verb

ulcerate (third-person singular simple present ulcerates, present participle ulcerating, simple past and past participle ulcerated)

  1. (transitive) To cause an ulcer to develop.
    • The surface was ulcerated by trauma.
  2. (intransitive) To become ulcerous.
    • The tissue ulcerated shortly after exposure.

ulcerate meaning in Urdu, Kannada and Vietnamese

ulcerate in Urdu

ناسور زدہ بنانا

ulcerate in Kannada

ಹುಣ್ಣಾಗು, ಕೀವಾಗು

ulcerate in Vietnamese

to become ulcerous
loét

Forms of ulcerate

Adjective
comparativemore ulcerate
superlativemost ulcerate
Verb
third-person singular presentulcerates
present participleulcerating
past participleulcerated
pastulcerated

Origin of ulcerate

Borrowed from Latin ulcerātus.

Borrowed from Latin ulcerō.

Words formed from ulcerate

Questions about ulcerate

What does ulcerate mean?
Ulcerate means having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.
What is ulcerate in Urdu?
Ulcerate in Urdu is ناسور زدہ بنانا. See Ulcerate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is ulcerate?
Ulcerate can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near ulcerate in the dictionary

  1. Ulceby
  2. Ulceby with Fordington
  3. ulcer
  4. ulcera
  5. ulcerable
  6. ulcerate
  7. ulcerated
  8. ulcerates
  9. ulcerating
  10. ulcerating granuloma of the pudendum
  11. ulcerating sclerosing granuloma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ulcerate (page history and authors); ulcerate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ulcerate (Kannada 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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