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PUTREFY
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Irregular inflected form: putrefied
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they putrefy ... he / she / it putrefies
Past simple: putrefied
Past participle: putrefied
-ing form: putrefying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become putrid; decay with an offensive smell
Example:
organic matter putrefies
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "putrefy" is one way to...):
decay (undergo decay or decomposition)
"Putrefy" entails doing...:
smell (emit an odor)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Derivation:
putrefacient (causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction)
putrefaction ((biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action)
putrefaction (a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor)
putrefactive (causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction)
