Usually means: Producing or discharging pus excessively.
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  1. purulently: Collins English Dictionary
  2. purulently: Wordnik
  3. purulently: Wiktionary
  4. Purulently, purulently: Dictionary.com
  5. Purulently: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. purulently: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Purulently: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. purulently: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Purulently: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. purulently: Legal dictionary

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  1. purulently: Medical dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a purulent manner; involving, or resembling pus.

Similar:
putridly, ulcerously, pestilently, puberulently, pulpily, putrescently, pruriently, virulently, pestilentially, pulvinately, more...

Opposite:
cleanly, hygienically, aseptically

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Similar:
putridly, ulcerously, pestilently, puberulently, pulpily, putrescently, pruriently, virulently, pestilentially, pulvinately, more...

Opposite:
cleanly, hygienically, aseptically



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