putrefaction

putrefaction is a 12-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 23 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.
2. noun. The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied.
3. noun. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

   "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"

   "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"

   Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity

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

   Synonyms: decomposition, rot, rotting

5. noun. a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

   Synonyms: rot

Synonyms

corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, decomposition, rot, rotting

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