To suppurate; ooze with pus.
The word "quitter" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to refer to a person who gives up or withdraws from a challenge or competition before it is over. For example, you could say: "He was so close to winning the race but he gave up, what a quitter!".
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The Taliban will find it easier to recruit new warriors if people think Mr Obama is a quitter, and the Pakistani government will continue to hedge its bets.
Mr Bradley has clearly come to loathe the vice-president over the past few months, and he is unlikely to give the man who has mocked him as a "quitter" for retiring in 1996 the pleasure of seeing him quit again.Does all this mean that the apostle of a new sort of politics has become a prisoner of the old?
Later this week a team of American diplomats and military officials led by Paul Wolfowitz, America's deputy defence secretary, will visit Ankara, the capital.The one accusation that cannot be made against Mr Ecevit, Turkey's ailing and besieged prime minister, is that he is a quitter.
KIM DAE JUNG is no quitter.
Mr Yosano is no quitter.
Anybody less like a quitter is hard to imagine: most athletes in her unhappy position would have given up trying to reach these Olympics months ago.
Ludwig does not simply clarify my doubts with English writing, it enlightens my writing with new possibilities
Simone Ivan Conte
Software Engineer at Adobe, UK