💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Putrefy"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| taintnoun | A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food. |
| muddy | Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”). |
| etiolatenoun | To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant. |
| reeknoun | A strong unpleasant smell. |
| sickly | Frequently ill or in poor health; weakly. |
| woodifyverb | To become wood, or woodlike. |
| liquesceverb | (intransitive) To become a liquid; to liquefy. |
| stink on iceverb | (idiomatic, colloquial) To be of very poor quality, even repulsive. |
| stink like a mackerelverb | (simile) To reek; to smell terrible. |
| sloomnoun | A gentle sleep; slumber. |
| ride rustyverb | Synonym of turn rusty (“become stubborn in opposition”). |
| slimenoun | Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive; bitumen; mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing. |
| moist | Characterized by the presence of moisture; not dry; slightly wet; damp. |
| hazenoun | Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. (Compare fog, mist.) |
| stink like a polecatverb | (simile, slang, derogatory) To have a bad smell, mostly referring to human body odor. |
| sicklifyverb | (transitive, rare, dated, nonstandard) To make sickly or sickish |
| leak like a sieveverb | (simile, informal) To be very leaky. |
| sausagenoun | A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing. |
| look like one swallowed a bugverb | (colloquial) To have a dismayed or shocked facial expression. |
| grizzlenoun | Grey hair. |
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