suppurating sore
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9.5
- noun
- /ˈsʌpəˌreɪtɪŋ sɔr/
- Specialized
- The child had a number of suppurating sores on his back and arms.
Examples
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The child had a number of suppurating sores on his back and arms.
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My first patient was the headman, who had a large suppurating sore on the heel of his badly swollen foot and leg.
Academic text (1996) -
We wake and wrestle whatever greets us, be it suppurating sores.
Fiction book (1996) -
Then, as if he was no longer able to resist an awful temptation, he put his hand up and scratched at the open blotches on his face with a hand that was similarly disfigured with suppurating sores.
Fiction book (1995) -
My first patient was the headman, who had a large suppurating sore on the heel of his badly swollen foot and leg.
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Meanwhile, prisoners with suppurating sores begged money from us to buy medicines in the prison hospital.
Synonyms
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3.7
A painful sore on the skin or inside the body that can make pus
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2.2
A painful spot on the skin that is open or infected
22
7.5
A painful swollen area in the body that contains pus from an infection
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4.6
A painful swollen spot on the skin filled with pus
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8.1
A small red raised spot on the skin filled with pus
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7.5
A sore that gets infected and fills with pus
How Infected
- Specialized
22
7.5
- Specialized
1
9.5
225
3.3
- Specialized
60
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'suppurating' (producing pus) modifying 'sore' (a skin lesion), so the meaning 'a sore that produces pus' is directly derived from its parts. This follows regular English morphological patterns and the logic (an infected lesion producing pus) is cross-linguistically common, making it predictable for learners who know both constituents.
Etymology
Suppurating sore comes from a simple image: suppurating means 'making pus' and sore means a painful spot. So the phrase describes a wound that is swollen and produces pus.