pus

Speech parts

1. pus - Noun

2. pus - Adjective

3. pus - Verb

Meaning

The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

purulence matter secretion festering ichor suppuration sanies carrion flow dung infection emission discharge mucus excretion
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Antonyms

honor morality purity dignity goodness cleanliness
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Hypernyms

humor humour body fluid bodily fluid liquid body substance Hindu calendar month

Hyponyms

gleet

Phrases with the word

discharge of pus pus basin form pus pus from the ear ear pus

Examples

Tain't by turnin' out to hack folks You're agoin' to git your right, Nor by lookin' down on black folks Coz you're put upon by white; Slavery ain't o' nary color, 'Tain't the hide thet makes it wus, All it keers fer in a feller 'S jest to make him fill its pus. James Russell Lowell

[In Marcel Ophuls' film The Memory of Justice] Mad old Nazis were to be heard deploring modern decadence. 'The difference is, we weren't obsessed with smut,' said one comfortable, retired SS man, all unaware of being up to his neck in blood and pus. Clive James

Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget. Mary Roach

Joke, joke, discharges pus. Swahili Proverb

Abel” found the masses to be interconnected abscesses, swollen pockets of pus, that had been eroding tissue in Thomas’ leg over time. Source: Internet

“After 11 days of investigations, procedures and treatment, he died with an abdomen full of pus and chest full of blood and clots,” the report said. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

purwanna purwannah Puryear pus basin pus from the ear pus-forming bacteria