Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See putrefy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To putrefy.

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  • verb Alternative spelling of putrefy.

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Examples

  • It had begun to putrify, and was giving off quite an awful odor, so we left it and sat some distance away on the boulders as a fog rolled in across the bay.

    The Whore's Daughter greygirlbeast 2008

  • You nursed your grievances and rage and let them putrify and corrupt you like Annakin Skywalker.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Alison 2009

  • You nursed your grievances and rage and let them putrify and corrupt you like Annakin Skywalker.

    Dear Stephen Harper, Boris 2009

  • She argued that because the hot, humid weather in June 1673 would have caused corpses to putrify rapidly, embalming would have been too costly and time-consuming.

    D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands? Jan 2008

  • Alison – The smell thing can be subtle depending on how much you consume – comes from the length of time it takes meat to digest causing it to putrify in your in your system which affects your breath, sweat, bodily fluids and even skin.

    10 Even Better Reasons to go Veg. « XUP 2008

  • It will not become more tender, and it will just putrify.

    Aging Meat Question 2005

  • When it hits a hot wok it smells rather like someone left a sardine in their tennis shoe in a locker and let it putrify all summer.

    Tigers & Strawberries » Thai Basil 2005

  • It will not become more tender, and it will just putrify.

    Aging Meat Question 2005

  • Block these shape shifters from entering the privacy of your home or their toxicity will permeate and putrify everything therin.

    Think Progress » MSNBC and CNN gaining on Fox News. 2006

  • They were laid in a row with their faces downwards on the altar before the idol, to whom they were presented in a kind of prayer by the priest, and, if offerings of hogs were presented at the same time, these were piled upon them, and the whole mass was left to putrify.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

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