Wart - English meaning

noun

A small bubble on the skin filled with serum and caused by friction, burning, or other damage.

Usage examples:

His heels were covered in blisters

verb

Form blisters on the skin or other surface.

Usage examples:

The surface of the door began to blister

verb

(with reference to a liquid) reach or cause to reach the temperature at which it bubbles and turns to vapour.

Usage examples:

We asked people to boil their drinking water

noun

The temperature at which a liquid bubbles and turns to vapour.

Usage examples:

Bring the sauce to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes

noun

An inflamed pus-filled swelling on the skin, caused typically by the infection of a hair follicle.

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You can use them to treat sores, bruises, cuts, boils and inflammatory skin conditions.

noun

A severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin, typically infected with staphylococcus bacteria.

Usage examples:

It can be made into a salve or the tincture can be painted on boils, felons, carbuncles, abscesses,…

noun

A large painful swelling under the skin

noun

The chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in england) wheat or (in scotland) oats.

Usage examples:

Fields of corn

noun

A small, painful area of thickened skin on the foot, especially on the toes, caused by pressure.

Usage examples:

An ingrown nail on one foot and a corn on the other were now troubling me

noun

A tall plant grown for its whole yellow or white seeds which are eaten cooked, made into flour, or fed to animals

Usage examples:

Let’s pick up a half dozen ears of corn for supper.

noun

A distinct outgrowth on a body or plant, resulting from disease or abnormality.

Usage examples:

The males often have a strange excrescence on the tip of the snout

noun

An unusual growth on an animal or one of its organs, or on a plant

Usage examples:

Adult males sometimes have a strange excrescence on the tip of their snouts., no nodular excrescenc…

noun

The process of increasing in size.

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The upward growth of plants

noun

The process of developing or of increasing in size

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[ u ] plant growth is most noticeable in spring., [ u ] his budget is designed to promote economic …

noun

An increase in the ability of an economy or business to produce goods and services

Usage examples:

The growth of the indian economy, we have had three successive years of economic growth., growth ra…

noun

A compact mass of a substance, especially one without a definite or regular shape.

Usage examples:

There was a lump of ice floating in the milk

verb

Put in an indiscriminate mass or group; treat as alike without regard for particulars.

Usage examples:

Hong kong and bangkok tend to be lumped together in holiday brochures

verb

Accept or tolerate a disagreeable situation whether one likes it or not.

Usage examples:

You can like it or lump it but i've got to work

noun

A thing that protrudes from something else.

Usage examples:

Some dinosaurs evolved protuberances on top of their heads

noun

Something that sticks out from a surface

Usage examples:

If the plant has been infected you will see dark protuberances along the stems., bunions are bony p…

noun

An abnormal enlargement of a part of the body, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid.

Usage examples:

Painless swellings may appear in the lower abdomen

adjective

Becoming greater in intensity, number, amount, or volume.

Usage examples:

The swelling ranks of irish singer-songwriters

verb

(especially of a part of the body) become larger or rounder in size, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid.

Usage examples:

Her bruised knee was already swelling up

noun

The quality of being swollen, or a swollen part of the body, especially caused by sexual excitement

Usage examples:

Erectile dysfunction can mean less tumescence as well as the complete absence of an erection., in t…

noun

A swelling of a part of the body, generally without inflammation, caused by an abnormal growth of tissue, whether benign or malignant.

Usage examples:

She underwent six months of chemotherapy to try to shrink the tumour

noun

A mass of diseased cells that might become a lump or cause illness

Usage examples:

They found a malignant tumour in her breast., a benign tumour, a brain tumour

noun

A contagious and usually painful wart on the sole of the foot; a plantar wart.

Usage examples:

Warts aren't normally painful, although verrucas (warts on the feet) can sometimes hurt.

noun

A small, hard, infectious growth on the skin, usually on the bottom of the foot