PUTREFACTION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

Example:

Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction

Synonyms:

corruption; degeneracy; depravation; depravity; putrefaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("putrefaction" is a kind of...):

immorality (the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct)

Meaning:

(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

Synonyms:

breakdown; decomposition; putrefaction; rot; rotting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("putrefaction" is a kind of...):

decay (the process of gradually becoming inferior)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Derivation:

putrefy (become putrid; decay with an offensive smell)

Meaning:

A state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

Synonyms:

putrefaction; rot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("putrefaction" is a kind of...):

decay (an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "putrefaction"):

corruption; putrescence; putridness; rottenness (in a state of progressive putrefaction)

Derivation:

putrefy (become putrid; decay with an offensive smell)