putrescent
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- adjective
- /pjuˈtrɛsənt/
:
putrescente
- Ignore this absolute putrescent travesty of a hotel.
Examples
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Federico, let's play the putrescent game.
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And if it was a swift reaction to the Holocaust that erupted like vile spit and vomit from that putrescent mound, I cannot say.
Fiction book (1995) -
And the good of those putrescent, little children!
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Free grace has no need for the putrescent causality of such resources.
Academic text (2006) -
It's putrescent.
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A rank odor, sweetly putrescent, infected the air.
Fiction book (1990) -
The "obituary" was, in fact, Sherrill's 1988 review of a biography of Cohn which (as Sherrill stated later) "went into great detail about Cohn's dying, to good purpose, since there was something quite fitting in the putrescent ending of this very putrescent fellow."
Academic text (1993) -
The "obituary" was, in fact, Sherrill's 1988 review of a biography of Cohn which (as Sherrill stated later) "went into great detail about Cohn's dying, to good purpose, since there was something quite fitting in the putrescent ending of this very putrescent fellow."
Academic text (1993) -
The putrescent smell from the garbage filled the room with a nauseating stench.
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The putrescent fruit lay forgotten at the bottom of the basket, attracting flies and other pests.
Synonyms
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Gone bad and no longer good to eat or use
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Rotting and smelling very bad
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Something like wood, teeth, or food that is soft and broken because it has rotted
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Damaged by decay so it is no longer safe or useful
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
putrescent = putrid (semi-transparent) = putresc + ent
The adjective is formed with the regular suffix '-ent', but the root 'putresc-' is a Latinate combining form not a standalone English word; relation to 'putrid'/'putrefy' is helpful but not perfectly transparent to learners.
Etymology
The word putrescent comes from an old Latin word putrescere, which means 'to rot' or 'become rotten', and it shares the same root as putrid. So putrescent describes something that is starting to decay or smell rotten.