Decaying vs Putrefied - What's the difference?
decaying | putrefied | Related terms |
The act of something that decays.
* 1839 , William Jenkyn, ?James Sherman, An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude (page 274)
(putrefy)
To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.
To become gangrenous.
To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.
To corrupt; to make foul.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
Decaying is a related term of putrefied.
As verbs the difference between decaying and putrefied
is that decaying is while putrefied is (putrefy).As a noun decaying
is the act of something that decays.decaying
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(en noun)- Spiritual witherings and decayings are opposite to the word of God.
putrefied
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(head)putrefy
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(en-verb)- to putrefy an ulcer or wound
- Private suits do putrefy the public good.
- They would but stink, and putrefy the air.