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