Putrefy Synonyms

pyo͝otrə-fī
To become or cause to become rotten or unsound
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decay
  2. decompose
  3. rot
  4. deteriorate
  5. disintegrate
  6. spoil
  7. taint
  8. break down
  9. corrupt
  10. crumble
  11. putresce
  12. molder
  13. turn
To decay or cause to decay and have a foul odor.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decay

Words Related to Putrefy

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Putrefy Sentence Examples

  • They increase as bacteria putrefy animal flesh, producing a strong rotting odor.

  • As more fibreless processed foods putrefy in the intestines, becoming a feeding ground for harmful bacteria, colonies of acidophilus suffer immensely.

  • If food were combined improperly, Diamond claimed it caused food to "putrefy and ferment" within the intestinal tract instead of being digested.

  • In the early process for extracting the oil the livers were allowed to putrefy in wooden tubs, when oils of two qualities, one called "pale oil," and the other "light brown oil," successively rose to the surface and were drawn off.

  • The habit of allowing their meat to putrefy before regarding it as fit for food, and of encouraging children of tender age to drink to intoxication, accounts for absence of old folk and the heavy mortality which are to be observed among the Muruts of British North Borneo and some of the other more debased tribes of the interior of the island.

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