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What does putrefy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word putrefy? Here's what it means.

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  1. To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
  2. To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.
  3. To become gangrenous.
  4. To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.
  5. To corrupt; to make foul.
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In Brunswick people think that if a menstruous woman assists at the killing of a pig, the pork will putrefy.
This process preserves the skin which would otherwise quickly putrefy or decay.
Anything organic is going to putrefy or ferment very, very rapidly.
And the minute that the magnificent, multifaceted Crenshaw arrives to putrefy all around him, the scene is set for classic comedy.
Throughout history, from the Greeks with the four humors to the 19th century, the belief was that when flow obstructs, tissue will putrefy.
However, during the hot Polish summers, the bodies started to putrefy.

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