Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having become an ulcer; affected with an ulcer; ulcerated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Ulcerous; ulcerated.

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  • adjective Having an ulcer or ulcers.

Etymologies

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ulcer +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • O'er gardens of the bourgeoisie there rules a king of ulcered thigh,

    Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • O'er gardens of the bourgeoisie there rules a king of ulcered thigh,

    The Lucifer Cantos 9/13 Hal Duncan 2009

  • She forced herself to stay, to work as though it were a day like any other, but her hands trembled when she cleaned the rancid, ulcered skin of an old man, and she lost count when she tried to dispense pills for a young woman with a cough.

    Lipstick in Afghanistan Roberta Gately 2010

  • Whose eyelids ever ulcered are with tearful brine;

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Egypt, for I never saw any of those ulcered faces, or mangled noses, which are so common in the northern valley of the Nile.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • This poor soul, pallid and puffy on his bed after desperate vomiting, sick and quiet and unregarded ever since, spent and ulcered mind and spirit by what he had so mistakenly undertaken, Jerome was for the first time wholly pitiful.

    The Holy Thief Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1992

  • It is said to ease women in labour when drank in a decoction; to cure ulcers, if bruised and laid upon the ulcered part; to be a sovereign remedy for the head-ach; a considerable quantity of its leaves bruised, and laid as a cataplasm. upon the head, quickly removes the pain.

    History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

  • Columns of muddy smoke spurt up continually as high explosives tear deeper into this ulcered area.

    Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun James Rogers 1917

  • Sore eyes, scrofula, withered arm or leg, sagged shoulder, hip out of joint -- There, crawling along the sidewalk, was the boy whose legs had been cut off by the street car; and the stumps were horribly ulcered.

    Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume II 1915

  • Columns of muddy smoke spurt up continually as high explosives tear deeper into this ulcered area.

    Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun 1902

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