Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective dated Proceeding from
putrefaction , or partaking of theputrefactive process; having an offensive smell;stinking ;rotten .
Etymologies
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Latin putredo rottenness, from putrere to be rotten. See putrid.
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