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putrescence

English

Noun

putrescence (countable and uncountable, plural putrescences)

The condition of being putrid; decay
Putrid matter
- 1791, Presbyterio-Catholicon:
  Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast, [...]

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putrefy

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)

To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.
To become gangrenous.
To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.
to putrefy an ulcer or wound
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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