Meaning | Become putrid; decay with an offensive smell. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP | |
Entails | smell | emit an odor |
Broader | decay | Undergo decay or decomposition |
Spanish | pudrirse, pudrir | |
Catalan | podrir-se | |
Adjectives | putrefactive, putrefacient | causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction |
Nouns | putrefaction | (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action |
putrefaction | a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor |
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