Definition of Putrefy

1. Verb. Become putrid; decay with an offensive smell. "Organic matter putrefies"

Generic synonyms: Decay
Entails: Smell
Derivative terms: Putrefacient, Putrefaction, Putrefaction, Putrefactive

Definition of Putrefy

1. v. t. To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.

2. v. i. To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.

Definition of Putrefy

1. Verb. To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance. ¹

2. Verb. To reach an advanced stage of decomposition. ¹

3. Verb. To become gangrenous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Putrefy

1. to make or become putrid [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Putrefy

putour
putours
putout
putouts
putredinous
putrefacient
putrefaction
putrefactions
putrefactive
putrefactiveness
putrefiable
putrefied
putrefier
putrefiers
putrefies
putrefy (current term)
putrefying
putrescence
putrescences
putrescene
putrescenes
putrescent
putrescently
putrescible
putrescin
putrescine
putrescines
putrescins
putrid
putrider

Literary usage of Putrefy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Review of American Chemical Research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1906)
"nitrites or nitrates being present, the sample will putrefy. Second, when the consumed oxygen value is equal to or slightly less than the available oxygen ..."

2. Legal Medicine by Charles Meymott Tidy (1882)
"The livers of children putrefy considerably sooner after death than those of adults. ... (B.) Organ- s and parts that putrefy slowly. 1. The Heart. ..."

3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... to dirty, to putrefy. To Found, -found.—Fund, Lat. fundas, ground, bottom ; fundare, to lay the groundwork, to found. Profundus, having the bottom far ..."

4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"... man in the skin of a bullock fresh stripped off the animal, leaving only his head out ; and they leave him in it till the skin begins to putrefy. ..."

5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"He mixed about 9 ounces of fresh cheese from skimmed milk with nearly -ij pints of water, and suffered the mixture to putrefy during a month between 62° and ..."

6. Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English by Charles John Smith (1893)
"395 Correction, 280 Correlative, 576 Correspond, 713 Corroborate, 260 Corrupt, to contaminate, 272 to putrefy, ..."

7. Autointoxication; Or, Intestinal Toxemia by John Harvey Kellogg (1918)
"It is still better to give with each glass of milk a half ounce of a mixed culture of B. Bulgariens and B. Bifidus. Milk Does Not putrefy Milk ferments ..."

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