Crossword-Solution: PUTREFY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Putrefy | v. t. | To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot. |
| Putrefy | v. t. | To corrupt; to make foul. |
| Putrefy | v. t. | To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound. |
| Putrefy | v. i. | To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “PUTREFY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Decay and produce a very unpleasant smell | 1 answer |
| organic matter putrefies | 1 answer |
| rot and produce an offensive smell | 1 answer |
| Fester | 8 answers |
| DECAY WITH AN OFFENSIVE SMELL | 11 answers |
| Go bad | 13 answers |
| moulder | 13 answers |
| Contaminate | 37 answers |
| denature | 41 answers |
| Fall (off) | 51 answers |
| Desecrate | 53 answers |
| Crumble | 57 answers |
| Rot | 58 answers |
| Soil | 63 answers |
| Decay | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PUTREFY (5)
Howbeit, with the leaves of a tree the wounded were kept from dying; yet their wounds did greatly putrefy, and some did grievously stink.
All the animals which die in Tangier by the hand of God, horse, dog, or camel, are brought to this spot, and here they putrefy or are devoured by the birds of the heaven or the wild creatures that prowl on the chali.
Another, on some more serious offence, he slew outright; he exposed her body in an open box, and (to make the warning more memorable) suffered it to putrefy before the palace gate.
She insisted, indeed, on a quick burial, maintaining that, as her husband had been tres replet, the body would rapidly putrefy, owing to the prevailing heat, and that thus harm would be done to the delicate contents of the epicerie.
Likewise glorious gifts and foundations, are like sacrifices without salt; and but the painted sepulchres of alms, which soon will putrefy, and corrupt inwardly.
Quotes with PUTREFY (2)
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.
You tell anyone I cried, I'll find a dead fish, put it in a sock, hide it in your room, and let it putrefy.""Fair enough.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2012–2015).