different between putrefaction vs putrefy

English

Etymology

First attested between 1350 and 1400 from Middle English putrefaccioun, from Old French putrefaccïon, from Latin putrefacti?, from putrefactus, perfect passive participle of putrefaci? (“become rotten”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pju?t???fæk??n/

Noun

putrefaction (countable and uncountable, plural putrefactions)

1. The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
2. Rotten material.
3. The state of being rotten.

Related terms

• putrescent
• putrefactive
• putrefacient
• putrefy
• putrid

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin putrefacti?.

Noun

putrefaction f (oblique plural putrefactions, nominative singular putrefaction, nominative plural putrefactions)

1. (medicine) rot; rottenness

English

Alternative forms

• putrify

Etymology

From Middle French putréfier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pjut??fa?/

Verb

putrefy (third-person singular simple present putrefies, present participle putrefying, simple past and past participle putrefied)

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.

   to putrefy an ulcer or wound

5. To corrupt; to make foul.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Suitors

     Private suits do putrefy the public good.

Synonyms

• decay
• fester
• rot

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See also

• Gangrene on Wikipedia.Wikipedia