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Definition: Ulcerate |
UlcerateVerb1. Undergo ulceration; "Her stomach ulcerated". 2. Affect with an ulcer; "Her stomach was ulcerated". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ulcerate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ulcerate |
| English words defined with "ulcerate": Exulcerate ♦ Ulcerating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ulcerate": Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous. (references) |
| "Ulcerate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ulcerate" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ulcerate | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ulcerate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ulceroj, ulcerohem. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قرح (blister, botch, gall, sore), تقرح (ulcer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разранявам, възпалявам (irritate), образувам рани, покривам се с рани, подлютвам (make hot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 潰爛 (to fester, to ulcerate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hnisat (discharge, fester, matter, suppurate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تولیدقرحه کردن , زخم شدن , ریش شدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ulcérer (ulcer), s'ulcérer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | eitern (discharge pus, fester, purulence, purulency, putrefy, suppurate, to fester, to suppurate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έλκω (attract, draw, pull), πληγιάζω, ελκούμαι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fekélyt okoz (to ulcerate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | membisul. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ulcerare (canker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 腐爛 (decompose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふら" (decompose, decomposition, hatching, incubation, space without columns, ulceration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | askaidaghey (ulceration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erateulcay ulcerar (canker, fester, rankle). (various references) ulcera (hurt, wound). (various references) губить (overwhelm, play havoc, play hell, play the devil, play the mischief, ruin), изъязвлять (canker). (various references) ulcerisati, razjesti. (various references) ulcerarse (fester). (various references) får sår, bli sårig. (various references) ülserleşmek, ülsere dönüştürmek, ülser olmak, ülser etmek. (various references) губити (bereave, lose, undo), вкриватися виразками. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ulcerate": ulcerated, ulcerates. (additional references) | |
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"Ulcerate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lucarotti, Lucraft, Muldergate, ulcered. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: lecture, treacle. | |
-2 letters: acuter, cartel, cerate, cereal, claret, create, curate, curtal, cutler, ecarte, elater, eluate, rectal, relace, relate, reluct, tercel. | |
-3 letters: acute, alert, alter, arete, artel, caret, carle, carte, cater, clear, cleat, crate, creel, cruel, cruet, culet, curet, cuter, eater, eclat, elate, elect, elute, erect, eruct, lacer, laree, later, lucre, lutea, ratel, react. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: calenture, crenulate, electuary, reluctate, ulcerated, ulcerates, urceolate. | |
+2 letters: calentures, creaturely, crenulated, edulcorate, elucubrate, operculate, perceptual, reluctance, reluctated, reluctates, reticulate, trabeculae, ulcerative, unclearest. | |
+3 letters: carefullest, caterwauled, counterplea, edulcorated, edulcorates, electuaries, elucubrated, elucubrates, executorial, operculated, prefectural, recalculate, recirculate, recultivate, reduplicate, reinoculate, relubricate, reluctances, reticulated, reticulates, revictualed, trabeculate, tuberculate, ultrasecret, untraceable, vermiculate. | |
+4 letters: counterpleas, extranuclear, gracefullest, inoperculate, internuclear, nomenclature, perceptually, prosecutable, rearticulate, recalculated, recalculates, recapitulate, recirculated, recirculates, recultivated, recultivates, reduplicated, reduplicates, reinoculated, reinoculates, relubricated, relubricates, reluctancies, reticulately, revictualled, secularities, translucence, tuberculated, ultraprecise, uncelebrated, uncorrelated, vermiculated. | |
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