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Word Meanings - APOSTEMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus. Wiseman.

Related words: (words related to APOSTEMATE)

  • SWELLTOAD
    A swellfish.
  • ABSCESS
    A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years
  • SWELL
    1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
  • ABSCESSION
    A separating; removal; also, an abscess. Gauden. Barrough.
  • SWELLDOM
    People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
  • SWELLING
    an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;
  • SWELLISH
    Dandified; stylish.
  • SWELLFISH
    Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
  • UPSWELL
    To swell or rise up.
  • UNSWELL
    To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
  • HEARTSWELLING
    Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
  • BOSWELLISM
    The style of Boswell.
  • HIGH-SWELLING
    Inflated; boastful.
  • OUTSWELL
    1. To exceed in swelling. 2. To swell beyond; to overflow. Hewyt.
  • BOSWELLIAN
    Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.
  • OVERSWELL
    To swell or rise above; to overflow. Shak.

 

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