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Part of Speech: interjection

A corruption of God's; - formerly used in oaths and ejaculatory phrases.

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ulcer

Part of Speech: noun

Results: 3

1. Fig.: Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.

2. A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body, discharging purulent matter, found on a surface, especially one of the natural surfaces of the body, and originating generally in a constitutional disorder; a sore discharging pus. It is distinguished from an abscess, which has its beginning, at least, in the depth of the tissues.

Part of Speech: verb transitive, intransitive

1. To ulcerate.

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