Putrefy vs Moulder - What's the difference?
putrefy | moulder |
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
To decay or rot.
* Mason
*c.1855': John Brown's body lies a-'''mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on! — Traditional, ''John Brown's Body
* 1841 , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Rainy Day", Ballads and Other Poems
A person who moulds dough into loaves.
Anyone who moulds or shapes things.
A machine used for moulding.
As verbs the difference between putrefy and moulder
is that putrefy is to become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance while moulder is to decay or rot.As a noun moulder is
a person who moulds dough into loaves.putrefy
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.
Synonyms
* decay * fester * rotSee also
* (Gangrene)moulder
English
Verb
(en verb)- [Time's] gradual touch / Has mouldered into beauty many a tower.
- The day is cold, and dark, and dreary
- It rains, and the wind is never weary;
- The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
- But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
- And the day is dark and dreary.