0 present participle of putrefy
1 to decay, producing a strong, unpleasant smell:
The body had putrefied beyond recognition.
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.
Further, one can introduce putrefaction by allowing a material sample to come into contact with putrefying fluids or vapors.
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.
The next war, of which people are talking so lightly and for which governments are so blindly preparing, will leave civilisation a smoking ruin and a putrefying charnel house.
A seven-foot-tall, slime-covered heap of putrefying protoplasm slithers across the floor on its tentacles.
