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Putrefy

verb
(past & past part. putrefied; pres. part. putrefying)
1.
Become putrid; decay with an offensive smell.





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... his accounts, and gave up his halfpenny (i.e. vomited), seeing an archasdarpenin who laid a huge plenty of chamber lye to putrefy in horsedung, mishmashed with abundance of Christian sir-reverence. Pugh, fie upon him, nasty dog! However, he told us that with this sacred distillation he watered kings and princes, and made their sweet lives a ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais


Words linked to "Putrefy" :   putrefacient, putrefactive, putrefaction, smell, decay


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