MEANING
Of or contributing to the breakdown of dead organic material through decay.
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- putrefactive bacteria
- putrefactive changes
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Putrefactive changes had begun in the tissue.
The closed room trapped the odors of putrefactive decay.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a process classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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