Medicine. Of a wound, sore, ulcer, or (in early use) humour or other body fluid: corrupt; necrotic; suppurating. Obsolete.

That has become a fester (fester, n. 1a); that has festered (in various senses of the verb).

Of or relating to pus; of the nature of or containing pus.

containing pus.

Full of festers; festering.

Of the nature of or resembling pus; consisting of or containing pus.

= suppurated, adj.

Of the nature of, or containing, matter or pus.

Containing matter or pus. Now U.S. regional.

Of the nature of or resembling pus. Obsolete.

Full of morbid or bloody matter.

Of the nature of sanies; consisting of, or containing sanies; yielding a discharge of sanies.

Of a wound, sore, part of the body, etc.: ulcerating, suppurating. Also: putrefying; rotting.

Of the nature of or resembling pus; full of or soiled with pus.

festered, inveterate.

Of matter: Rendered purulent. Obsolete. rare.

Containing or full of pus; purulent; (of an abscess) ripe, mature. In early use also: †converted into pus (obsolete). Also figurative.

Pathology. Of an ulcer, wound, etc.: yielding or discharging matter of this kind.

Corrosive; smarting; purulent.

That festers; suppurating, rotting. In later use chiefly figurative of resentment or other persistent negative emotions.

Capable of becoming, forming, or discharging pus; (later also) suppurating, suppurative. Also in figurative context.

Of a wound or sore: festering, inflamed, corrupt. Chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts.

= suppurative, adj. Now rare.

Resembling or of the nature of pus.

of or relating to pus.

Forming, containing, or discharging pus; characterized by suppuration; suppurative. Also in figurative context.

Pathology ? Putrid, offensive. Obsolete.

Accompanied or characterized by suppuration; of or relating to suppuration. Also fig.

= suppurative, adj.

Of the nature of gleet.

Resembling (that of) pus; pyoid.

Resembling (that of) pus. Cf. puruloid, adj.

Pathology. colloid substance, colloid tissue, colloid matter, colloid corpuscles, colloid spheres: a homogeneous or slightly granular gelatinous…

Belonging or relating to digestion (in later use spec. by gastric fluid).

Full of pus; resembling or consisting of pus; pus-like.

That may be matured or brought to full development.

Inclined to fret. Of a sore: Inflamed, festering.