verb

definition

To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.

definition

To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.

definition

To become gangrenous.

definition

To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.

example

to putrefy an ulcer or wound

definition

To corrupt; to make foul.

Examples of putrefying in a Sentence

It is ordinarily prepared by the fermentation of sugar or starch, brought about by the addition of putrefying cheese, calcium carbonate being added to neutralize the acids formed in the process.

When these processes continue for a long time in deep water shut off from free circulation so that it does not become aerated by contact with the atmosphere the water becomes unfit to support the life of fishes, and when the accumulation of putrefying organic matter gives rise to sulphuretted hydrogen as in the Black Sea below 125 fathoms, life, other than bacterial, is impossible.

This great assemblage is always a dangerous centre of infection, and the days of Mina especially, spent under circumstances originally adapted only for a Bedouin fair, with no provisions for proper cleanliness, and with the air full of the smell of putrefying offal and flesh drying in the sun, produce much sickness.

Houseflies can transmit diseases when feeding on liquefiable solid food, which may be moist, putrefying material or food stored for human consumption.

Thus there is always a quantity of putrefying matter contaminating the air.

From the crown of the head to the soles of the feet are you wounds and bruises and putrefying sores?

Nick 's manager finds him an isolated country house and while there he comes across the putrefying corpse of his ex wife...

Our noses were assaulted by the putrefying smell of rotting flesh.

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