What is "putrify"

Usage examples of "putrify".

For this knowledge must be the beneficial evacuation of nature, the rank and putrified stool which, foul as it is, carries out and away the far fouler source of poison and decay - the great worm of hope.

Kallie unbuttoned his coat and fought the desire to vomit as he tried to ignore the sweet, ripe smell of putrifying vegetables.

And the odor of death in the night air, too: rot and fungus, putrifying gas from the muddy bottom, something long dead caught in a quicksand pool.

On the other hand, where hygienic and sanitary science is not enforced, filth, decay and putrifying matter is sure to accumulate.

Its powerful antiseptic properties render it very useful to young and tender plants, by keeping the soil free of putrifying substances, which would otherwise destroy their spongioles and prevent their growth.

Fires were kept constantly burning to prevent the infection of the atmosphere from the putrifying mass.

At Romani especially the ground was littered with bones, great ravens hung over the putrifying bodies of animals, and a horrid, fetid smell pervaded the atmosphere.

That the putrified weeds have poisoned the air, and the poisoned air causes the yellow fever, that desolates these beautiful countries.

Hereupon also will they thresh out three parts of the old corn, towards the latter end of the summer, when new cometh apace to hand, and cast the same in the fourth unthreshed, where it shall lie until the next spring, or peradventure till it must and putrify.