0 present participle of putrefy --
1 to decay, producing a strong, unpleasant smell: --
The body had putrefied beyond recognition.
The two compounds are largely responsible for the foul odor of putrefying flesh, but also contribute to the odor of such processes as bad breath and bacterial vaginosis.
Vepar can make men die in three days by putrefying sores and wounds, causing worms to breed in them, but if requested by the conjurer he can heal them immediately.
Vepar can make men die in three days by putrefying sores and wounds, causing worms to breed in them, but if requested by the conjurer she can heal them immediately.
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.
Away from the plastic and putrefying conditions in the cities.
A seven-foot-tall, slime-covered heap of putrefying protoplasm slithers across the floor on its tentacles.
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.
We shall not see any election in our time fought upon these old and, by this time, completely putrefying considerations.
