Associations to the word «Putrefaction»

PUTREFACTION, noun. The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.

PUTREFACTION, noun. Rotten material.

PUTREFACTION, noun. The state of being rotten.

PUTREFACTION, noun. A state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor.

PUTREFACTION, noun. (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action.

PUTREFACTION, noun. Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction".