Synonyms for putrefy
- verb
Definitions
- v. 1
To fester or rot and exude a fetid stench.
Related words
- Word family
- putrefiable
- Other spellings
- putrify
Forms
- Past participle
- putrefied
e.g. putrefied → decayed, rotted, mortified, spoilt…
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Putrefy and the adjectives putrid and putrescent, and the nouns putridity and putrescence, are used almost exclusively of animal matter in a state of decomposition, the more general word decay being used of either animal or vegetable substances.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- decay A mother must protect her child's teeth from decay.
- rot Put the meat in the refrigerator, or it will rot.
- fester Don't allow anger to grow and fester in your heart.
- decompose Rocks take time to decompose, especially quartz and feldspar.
By length
- 3 letters
- rot1
- 5 letters
- decay2, spoil1
- 6 letters
- fester2
- 7 letters
- corrupt2, mortify3
- 9 letters
- decompose3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (decay2 = 2 syllables).