putrefy
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Etymology
From Middle French putréfier.
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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”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- Private suits do putrefy the public good.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- They would but stink, and putrefy the air.
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to reach an advanced stage of decomposition
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to become gangrenous
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