putrefy

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To fester or rot and exude a fetid stench.
2. verb To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
3. verb To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.
4. verb To become gangrenous.
5. verb To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.

   to putrefy an ulcer or wound

6. verb To corrupt; to make foul.

Similar words

taint muddy etiolate reek sickly woodify liquesce stink on ice stink like a mackerel sloom

Often followed by

and in the for or before as on it

Word family

putrefied putrefies putrefying