putrefy

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To fester or rot and exude a fetid stench.
  2. To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
  3. To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.
    — In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.
  4. To become gangrenous.
  5. To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.
    — to putrefy an ulcer or wound
  6. To corrupt; to make foul.
    — Private suits do putrefy the public good.

词形变化

putrefies present,singular,third-person putrefying participle,present putrefied participle,past putrefied past putrify alternative

词汇关系

近义词
decay fester rot
衍生词
putrefiable putrefier unputrefied

词源

From Middle French putréfier.
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