0 to decay, producing a strong, unpleasant smell:
The body had putrefied beyond recognition.
1 to decay, producing a strong, unpleasant smell
The persistence of larvae in putrefying flesh is also determined by the environment: high humidity and low temperatures favour survival.
They are attracted to excrement, decaying, putrefying or purulent substances.
The ash could even be used as fertilizer, although not as high quality as fertilizer from putrefying manure.
The landfills around the city wall emitted smells because 'they contain poisonous organic matter' which putrefied (especially during the rains).
Even if putrefying prey were of little interest as a food resource, they may provide the cues that allow the predator to find aggregated patches of live prey.
We shall not see any election in our time fought upon these old and, by this time, completely putrefying considerations.
Away from the plastic and putrefying conditions in the cities.
Putrefying bacteria is one of the main processes in the nitrogen cycle; other than putrefying bacteria there are denitrifying bacteria, nitrifying bacteria and nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
