Word Meanings - PUTREFACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter. Note: Putrefaction is a complex phenomenon involving a multiplicity of chemical reactions, always accompanied by, and without doubt caused by, bacteria

Additional info about word: PUTREFACTION

1. The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter. Note: Putrefaction is a complex phenomenon involving a multiplicity of chemical reactions, always accompanied by, and without doubt caused by, bacteria and vibriones; hence, putrefaction is a form of fermentation, and is sometimes called putrefaction fermentative. Putrefaction is not possible under conditions that preclude the development of living organisms. Many of the products of putrefaction are powerful poisons, and are called cadaveric poisons, or ptomaïnes. 2. The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied. "Putrefaction's breath." Shelley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PUTREFACTION)

• Corruption
• Decomposition
• decay
• putrescence
• adulteration
• dev
• pravity
• rottenness
• defilement
• deterioration
• perversion
• debasement
• taint
• contamination
• putrefaction
• Decay
• Declension
• waning
• sinking
• wasting
• decrease
• corruption
• decadence
• dry rot
• consumption
• decline
• Rot
• Putrefaction
• mouldiness
• mildew

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PUTREFACTION)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Increase
• amplify
• augment
• extend

Related words: (words related to PUTREFACTION)

• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• WANING
  The act or process of waning, or decreasing. This earthly moon, the Church, hath fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses. Bp. Hall.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• CONSUMPTION
  A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• WAN
  Won. Chaucer.
• PUTRESCENCE
  The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• WANDY
  Long and flexible, like a wand. Brockett.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• SEAWAND
  See GIRDLES
• JUWANSA
  The camel's thorn. See under Camel.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• SWANNERY
  A place where swans are bred. "The largest swannery in England." Encyc. Brit.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.