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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca