putrid

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  • Adjective:
    of or relating to or attended by putrefaction
    having undergone infection
    in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor
    offensively malodorous
    morally corrupt or evil

Word Origin

putrid
putrid: see pus
putrid (adj.)
early 15c., from Latin putridus, from putrere "to rot," from putris "rotten, crumbling," related to putere "to stink," from PIE root *pu- (2) "to rot, stink" (see pus). First in reference to putrid fever, an old name for typhus (also known in Middle English as putrida). Related: Putrification.

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Example

1. It will take far more than an Oscar statuette or angry speech to prick this putrid boil of resentment .
2. Physiological diseases and microbial infection make Chinese chestnut putrid .
3. Study on pathogen of putrid skin disease of soft-shelled turtle
4. A putrid smell drove us from the room .
5. Become putrid ; decay with an offensive smell .

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