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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
putrefactive (comparative more putrefactive, superlative most putrefactive)
- Of, pertaining to, or causing putrefaction.
1895–1897, H G Wells, “Dead London”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book II (The Earth under the Martians), page 282:And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid Handling Machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; […]
Translations
pertaining to or causing putrefaction