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Rotting vs Putrefaction - What's the difference?

rotting | putrefaction | Related terms |

Rotting is a related term of putrefaction.


As nouns the difference between rotting and putrefaction

is that rotting is the process by which something rots while putrefaction is putrefaction.

As a verb rotting

is .

rotting

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process by which something rots.
  • * 1686 , Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire (page 214)
    • the mould on the boles of the other [trees], that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves.
  • Material that has rotted.
  • * , Possum
    • From the compost rinds and rottings , from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.

    putrefaction

    English

    (wikipedia putrefaction)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
  • Rotten material.
  • The state of being rotten.

    • Related terms

    * putrescent * putrefactive * putrefacient * putrefy * putrid

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