Disintegrate vs Putrefy - What's the difference?
disintegrate | putrefy | Related terms |
To undo the integrity of, break into parts.
* Kirwan
To fall apart, break up into parts.
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
Disintegrate is a related term of putrefy.
As verbs the difference between disintegrate and putrefy
is that disintegrate is to undo the integrity of, break into parts while putrefy is to become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.disintegrate
English
Verb
(disintegrat)- Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years.
Synonyms
* (qualifier) dismember, dissolve * compost, decay, dissolveAntonyms
* integrateDerived terms
* disintegration * disintegrative * disintegratorputrefy
English
Verb
(en-verb)- to putrefy an ulcer or wound
- Private suits do putrefy the public good.
- They would but stink, and putrefy the air.