putrefy

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Meaning

To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.

To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.

To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.

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Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain's children: thy will be done. You have allowed men's hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done. Jean-Paul Sartre

Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds. Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

organic matter putrefies Source: Internet

The Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 20b) puts it differently: over two consecutive days of full Shabbat restrictions, vegetables would wilt (since they can't be cooked), and unburied corpses would putrefy. Source: Internet

Tanning is a process that stabilizes the protein of the raw hide or skin so it does not putrefy, making it suitable for a wide variety of end applications. Source: Internet

The principal difference between raw and tanned hides is that raw hides dry out to form a hard, inflexible material that, when rewetted (or wetted-back) putrefy, while tanned material dries to a flexible form that does not become putrid when wetted-back. Source: Internet

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