| 单词 | putrid |
| 释义 | putrid From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishBiologyputridpu‧trid /ˈpjuːtrɪd/ adjective1 HBdead animals, plants etc that are putrid are decaying and smell very badthe putrid smells from the slaughterhouses2 informalUNPLEASANT very unpleasanta putrid green colourExamples from the Corpusputrid• The air settled for sundown, the house again putrid and airless.• Poisoned wells, putrid carcases slung over the walls.• Random flashes of light: putrid green, violent orange, hellish red, shot through the swarming darkness.• It is a putrid pink colour.• a putrid smell• Just another scheme from the putrid sore of the northwest.• Gao Ma knew that the lane beyond the southern wall dead-ended at a noodle mill alongside a ditch of putrid stagnant water.Origin putrid (1400-1500) Latin putridus, from putrere “to have decayed”, from puter, putris “decayed” |
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