Today’s Words That Work: Supperate
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To supperate (SUP-yuh-rate) – from the Latin – is to fester; to form or discharge pus from a wound or sore.
Example (as used by Christopher Hitchens in a NYT review of To End All Wars by Adam Hochschild): “The post-1918 frontiers of the former Ottoman Empire… are still a suppurating source of violence and embitterment.”
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