abscess
/ˈæbsɛs/ verb C2- To form a pus-filled cavity, typically from an infection.
He/she/it abscesses · Past abscessed · Past participle abscessed · -ing form abscessing
Verb forms
- Base form
- abscess
- He/she/it
- abscesses
- Past
- abscessed
- Past participle
- abscessed
- -ing form
- abscessing
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Well, then, your guest will be poisoned at the fifth remove, and die, at the end of eight or ten days, of pains in the intestines, sickness, or abscess of the pylorus.
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