Meaning of फोड़ा in English

A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process.
An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.
A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.
To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils.
To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.
To pass from a liquid to an aeriform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away.
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger.
To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling.
To heat to the boiling point, or so as to cause ebullition; as, to boil water.
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.
To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes.
To steep or soak in warm water.
Act or state of boiling.
A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core.
A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre.
To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
To cause to fester or rankle.
A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
A festering or rankling.