Usually means: Develop sores through tissue disintegration.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word ulcerate:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. ulcerate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ulcerate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ulcerate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ulcerate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ulcerate: Vocabulary.com
  6. ulcerate: Wordnik
  7. ulcerate: Wiktionary
  8. ulcerate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ulcerate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ulcerate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ulcerate: Dictionary.com
  12. Ulcerate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ulcerate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ulcerate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ulcerate: Rhymezone
  16. Ulcerate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ulcerate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ulcerate: Free Dictionary
  19. ulcerate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ulcerate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Ulcerate: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. ulcerate: Medical dictionary

(Note: See ulcerated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ulcerate)

adjective:  (palynology, of a pollen grain) Having an ulcus, a rounded pore-like aperture, at one or both poles.
verb:  (medicine, transitive) To cause an ulcer to develop.
verb:  (medicine, intransitive) To become ulcerous.

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