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ulcerate

verb

ul·​cer·​ate ˈəl-sə-ˌrāt How to pronounce ulcerate (audio)
ulcerated; ulcerating

transitive verb

: to affect with or as if with an ulcer

intransitive verb

: to become affected with or as if with an ulcer

Example Sentences

The wound began to ulcerate.
Recent Examples on the Web The intestines of typhoid patients often had inflamed or ulcerated nodules known as glands of Peyer or Peyer’s patches, named after a 17th-century Swiss anatomist. Timothy Kent Holliday, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020 As the man lay shackled to his hospital bed by both wrists and ankles and at his waist, the skin on his back began to ulcerate. Sheri Fink, New York Times, 10 June 2019 The limbs swell, develop ulcerating sores and eventually rot. Donald G. Mcneil Jr., New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

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The first known use of ulcerate was in the 15th century

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