Usually means: Decomposes, often with foul smell.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. putrefies: Merriam-Webster
  2. putrefies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. putrefies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. putrefies: Vocabulary.com
  5. putrefies: Wordnik
  6. putrefies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. putrefies: Wiktionary
  8. putrefies: Dictionary.com
  9. putrefies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. putrefies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. putrefies: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. putrefies: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. putrefies: Medical dictionary

(Note: See putrefy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (putrefy)

verb:  To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
verb:  To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.
verb:  To become gangrenous.
verb:  To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.
verb:  To corrupt; to make foul.
▸ Also see putrefy


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