Suppurating, if you know this word without looking it up, I bow to your vocabulary!

[steve2470]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suppurate

Definition of suppurate

suppurated; suppurating

intransitive verb

: to form or discharge pus

reference: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-real-mcmafia-the-rise-of-the-oligarch-and-a-new-world-of-global-crime-rlljbpcw8

[procon]

1. I have a tremendous vocabulary. I know words. I have the best words.

Believe me.

Actually, being an old RN, I know the word... nasty business that.

[brewens]

2. I knew what it was. If you had asked me to come up with that word, I

doubt I could have conjured it up. I knew it when I saw it though.

[steve2470]

3. *bows*! nt

[Alwaysna]

4. Let's use this in a sentence.

Americans should suppurate the office of commander in chief.

[brewens]

7. What suppurates from Trump's mouth is beyond belief. n/t

[Voltaire2]

5. Not a particularly uncommon word.

The phrase “suppurating wound” helps to remind one of its meaning.

[steve2470]

8. I have a graduate degree, and I've never seen this word

I am glad you are better read than I. Toodles.

[shanny]

6. thank you

[steve2470]

9. my pleasure, always glad to enrich vocabularies haha! nt

[shanny]

14. I meant for the compliment--I already knew it.

[steve2470]

16. *bows*

[mainer]

10. I knew. But I have a medical degree

I think every doctor and probably many nurses know it.

[steve2470]

11. that makes perfect sense! thank you nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. So, if you squeeze the Electoral College, it suppurates a president. nt

[Thirties Child]

13. Knew what it was, would have spelled it wrong.

Which means I would have pronounced it wrong.

[csziggy]

15. Having dealt with suppurating wounds on horses, I know what it means

And I am very glad I have retired from the business and should never have to deal with one again.

[TuxedoKat]

17. Yes, I knew that word.

Read it somewhere.

[bluedigger]

18. Arise and go about thy business, then good Sir.

I'll be in the AO all day.