putrefy
verb /ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪ/
/ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪ/
[intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they putrefy | /ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪ/ /ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪ/ |
| he / she / it putrefies | /ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪz/ /ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪz/ |
| past simple putrefied | /ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪd/ /ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪd/ |
| past participle putrefied | /ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪd/ /ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪd/ |
| -ing form putrefying | /ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪɪŋ/ /ˈpjuːtrɪfaɪɪŋ/ |
- to decay and smell very bad synonym rot
- The corpses were beginning to putrefy.
Word Originlate Middle English: via French from Latin putrefacere, from puter, putr- ‘rotten’.