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PUTREFACTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Example:
Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
Synonyms:
corruption; degeneracy; depravation; depravity; putrefaction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("putrefaction" is a kind of...):
immorality (the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
Synonyms:
breakdown; decomposition; putrefaction; rot; rotting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("putrefaction" is a kind of...):
decay (the process of gradually becoming inferior)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Derivation:
putrefy (become putrid; decay with an offensive smell)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
Synonyms:
putrefaction; rot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("putrefaction" is a kind of...):
decay (an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "putrefaction"):
corruption; putrescence; putridness; rottenness (in a state of progressive putrefaction)
Derivation:
putrefy (become putrid; decay with an offensive smell)
