verb🔗ShareTo become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance."The abandoned fruit began to putrefy, its sweet smell replaced by a foul odor and its flesh turning to a mushy, discolored mess. "biologymedicineorganismbodydiseasebiochemistryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo reach an advanced stage of decomposition."The discarded apple core quickly putrefied in the sun. "biologyprocessorganismChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo become gangrenous."The wound on his leg was infected and began to putrefy. "medicinediseasebodyorganismphysiologybiologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo make morbid, carious, or gangrenous."to putrefy an ulcer or wound"medicinebiologyconditionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo corrupt; to make foul."The leftover food in the hot car will quickly putrefy if we don't take it out. "biologychemistryenvironmentnaturediseasebodyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
