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Decaying vs Putrefied - What's the difference?

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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

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that decays.
  • * 1839 , William Jenkyn, ?James Sherman, An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude (page 274)
  • Spiritual witherings and decayings are opposite to the word of God.

    putrefied

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (putrefy)

  • putrefy

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • 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 putrefy an ulcer or wound
  • To corrupt; to make foul.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Private suits do putrefy the public good.
  • * Shakespeare
  • They would but stink, and putrefy the air.

    Synonyms

    * decay * fester * rot

    See also

    * (Gangrene)