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Putrefy [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To dissolve and return to the original distinct elements, as animal and vegetable substances deprived of the living principle; to rot.

Putrefy [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cause to dissolve; to disorganize and reduce to the simple constituent elements, as animal or vegetable bodies; to cause to rot. Heat and moisture soon putrefy dead flesh or vegetables.

2. To corrupt; to make foul; as, to putrefy the air. [Little used.]

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

Putrefy [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.

Putrefy [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. To corrupt; to make foul.

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

Putrefying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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