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Definition of "putrefactive" [pu•tre•fac•tive]

  • Bringing about putrefaction. (adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or characterized by putrefaction. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "putrefactive" in a sentence
  • "But I guess if it's popular the proper elitist conclusion is that it must be bad, which is why I have no delusions about Avatar winning anything but technical awards on that night of irrelevant putrefactive crap known as the Oscars."
  • "Neither a minimum effort to embrace this "second choice plot" with a clear, social commitment as a real attach to prohibition and its social putrefactive actions or the need to put on top of emergence priorities the drugs law reform and definitively send the DEAs and the Reagans/Dubya philosophy to the horrors cellar...."
  • "That they did not bury any of their dead, and the reckless slaughter they perpetrated, point also to an entire ignorance of the putrefactive process."