PUTREFY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: putrefied

Present simple: I / you / we / they putrefy ... he / she / it putrefies

Past simple: putrefied

Past participle: putrefied

-ing form: putrefying

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)