MEANING
Producing or discharging pus.
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- suppurative wound
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The doctor cleaned the suppurative wound.
The lesion became suppurative.
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- suppurative
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a morphological or medical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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