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What (who) is putrefied - definition

Putrefied

·Impf & ·p.p. of Putrefy.

Putrefy

BREAKING DOWN OF A BODY OF A HUMAN OR ANIMAL POST-MORTEM

Putrification; Putrifaction; Putrify; Putrifaction (biochemistry); Putrefying; Putrid; Putrefy; 🝤; Putrified

·vt To Corrupt; to make foul.

II. Putrefy ·vi To become putrid; to decay offensively; to Rot.

III. Putrefy ·vt To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.

IV. Putrefy ·vt To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.

putrefy

BREAKING DOWN OF A BODY OF A HUMAN OR ANIMAL POST-MORTEM

Putrification; Putrifaction; Putrify; Putrifaction (biochemistry); Putrefying; Putrid; Putrefy; 🝤; Putrified

(putrefies, putrefying, putrefied)

When something putrefies, it decays and produces a very unpleasant smell. (FORMAL)

The meat in all of the open flasks putrefied.

...putrefying corpses.

= rot

VERB: V, V-ing

Examples of use of putrefied

1. Then try Iceland‘s great speciality, Hakarl – putrefied shark.

2. Still, the unsightly substance somehow reminded me of how many Icelanders believe that eating putrefied cubes of shark meat, called hakarl , is a great way to cure a hangover.

3. They also note that incidence of prion disease is no higher in India than elsewhere and that no study has been carried out to established whether putrefied human tissue, taken from the Ganges, contained prion disease, or if it could be transmissible.

4. Having read about St Nicholas, I can see the appeal of rejecting a monolithic global icon Santa Claus in favour of a local guy who is the patron saint of pawnbrokers and robbers, resurrected three slaughtered schoolboys whose bodies had been hidden in a pickling barrel, and whose own remains putrefied down into an allegedly healing liquid called manna, which was subsequently treasured by the pox–riddled locals.

5. Mr Robertson had told the court: "Now the law has changed, in large part due to the long and persistent campaign by Mr and Mrs Ming who felt they and their daughter were being denied justice." In a statement read to the judge, Mr Justice Calvert–Smith, Mrs Ming said the shock and after–effects of finding the body after police had failed to discover it during a search "verges on the indescribable". "To this day, I can still smell the putrefied smell which was our daughter," she said.