Associations to the word «Putrefy»

Wiktionary

PUTREFY, verb. To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
PUTREFY, verb. To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.
PUTREFY, verb. To become gangrenous.
PUTREFY, verb. To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.
PUTREFY, verb. To corrupt; to make foul.

Dictionary definition

PUTREFY, verb. Become putrid; decay with an offensive smell; "organic matter putrefies".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne