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putrefy
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Word definitions for putrefy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French putréfier , from Latin putrefacere "to make rotten," from putrere (see putrid ) + facere (see factitious ). Related: Putrefied ; putrefying .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Putrefy \Pu"tre*fy\, v. t. [Written also putrify.] [imp. & p. p. Putrefied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Putrefying .] [F. putr['e]fier; L. putrere to be rotten + -ficare (in. comp.) to make; cf. L. putrefacere. See Putrid , and -fy .] To render putrid; to cause ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Two days dead, the body was beginning to putrefy and the stench made both Benjamin and myself gag.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. become putrid; decay with an offensive smell; "organic matter putrefies" [also: putrefied ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance. 2 To reach an advanced stage of decomposition. 3 To become gangrenous. 4 To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous. 5 To corrupt; to make foul.
Usage examples of putrefy.
It was a mass of disintegrated tissue, a putrefied gumbo of flesh and fur that now was leaking out foul-smelling globules.
He carefully put his foot down on the ground, having to step into a putrefied sea of human remains several inches deep.
Alarmed, he breathed out a truly ugly stench, reminiscent of rotten eggs, bloated gut, putrefied zombies, and worse.
Whatever the reason and whatever it is, this putrefying collection of withered flesh and brittle bone is driven relentlessly towards it.
Three bodies, already putrefying, lay on the pale green ceramic tiles between the corner table-desk and the circular table.
The firebolt removed the putrefying corpses and the worst of the odor.
However, in some places there was, and indeed still is, a custom of keeping the putrefying corpse unburied in the house as a mark of affection.
Some of them would even anoint their bodies with the drippings from the putrefying corpse for the same purpose.
Board of Health lets you stay around the streets--when putrefying matter causes so much disease.
Heaped like driftwood by the rising water, bobbing and rolling on the edges, the putrefying flesh seethed with black-shelled, ten-legged crabs.
Teresa, seeing Jarmassad betrayed and brutally stabbed, surged through the flames in a frenzy of rage and conjured up a vision of an enormous putrefying monster who loomed over Orial.
The sour smell of faeces, wreckage and putrefying flesh was a smell all soldiers knew: it was the smell of war.
And after these scavengers of the East had torn the putrefying flesh and gnawed the multitude of bones, they prowled around the country, with tongues lolling out, in search of water.
These putrefying limbs Shut round and sepulchre the panting soul Which would burst forth into the wandering air!
Unsuccessfully, she forbade herself to think of worms and dirt and putrefying flesh.