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The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Rotten material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The state of being rotten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: immorality
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: decomposition, rot, rotting
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decay
a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decay
Narrower terms: putrescence, putridness, rottenness, corruption
First attested between 1350 and 1400 from Middle English putrefaccioun, from Old French putrefaccïon, from Latin putrefactiō, from putrefactus, perfect passive participle of putrefaciō (“become rotten”)
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Belarusian:
гніе́нне
(hnijénnje)
— the act of causing to rot
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Bulgarian:
гниене
(gniene)
— the act of causing to rot
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Chinese Mandarin:
腐敗 /腐败
(fǔbài)
— the act of causing to rot
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Dutch:
verrotting
— the act of causing to rot
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Finnish:
mädätys
— the act of causing to rot
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Finnish:
mädättäminen
— the act of causing to rot
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Finnish:
mädännyttäminen
— the act of causing to rot
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French:
putréfaction
— the act of causing to rot
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Galician:
putrefacción
— the act of causing to rot
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German:
Fäulnis
— the act of causing to rot
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German:
Verwesung
— the act of causing to rot
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German:
Verrottung
— the act of causing to rot
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German:
Zersetzung
— the act of causing to rot
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German:
Putrefaktion
— the act of causing to rot
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German:
Putreszenz
— the act of causing to rot
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German:
Verjauchung
— the act of causing to rot
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Greek:
σήψη
(sípsi)
— the act of causing to rot
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Greek:
αποσύνθεση
(aposýnthesi)
— the act of causing to rot
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Greek:
σάπισμα
(sápisma)
— the act of causing to rot
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Ancient Greek:
σῆψις
(sêpsis)
— the act of causing to rot
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Ido:
putro
— the act of causing to rot
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Low German:
Fuulnis
— the act of causing to rot
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Polish:
gnicie
— the act of causing to rot
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Portuguese:
putrefação
— the act of causing to rot
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Romanian:
putrefacție
— the act of causing to rot
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Romanian:
putreziciune
— the act of causing to rot
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Russian:
гние́ние
(gnijénije)
— the act of causing to rot
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Spanish:
putrefacción
— the act of causing to rot
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Spanish:
podre
— the act of causing to rot
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Spanish:
podredumbre
— the act of causing to rot
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Spanish:
pudrimiento
— the act of causing to rot
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Spanish:
podrimiento
— the act of causing to rot
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Spanish:
podredura
— the act of causing to rot
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Spanish:
pudrición
— the act of causing to rot
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Swedish:
förruttnelse
— the act of causing to rot
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Tagalog:
kabulukan
— the act of causing to rot
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Ukrainian:
гниття́
(hnyttjá)
— the act of causing to rot
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Bulgarian:
гнилоч
(gniloč)
— rotted material
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Finnish:
mätä
— rotted material
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Galician:
podremia
— rotted material
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Galician:
podrén
— rotted material
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Galician:
podredume
— rotted material
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Latin:
tābēs
— rotted material
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Polish:
zgnilizna
— rotted material
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Russian:
гниль
(gnilʹ)
— rotted material
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Russian:
гнильё
(gnilʹjó)
— rotted material
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Ukrainian:
гниль
(hnylʹ)
— rotted material
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Bulgarian:
гнилост
(gnilost)
— the state of being rotted
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Finnish:
mädäntyminen
— the state of being rotted
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Finnish:
mätäneminen
— the state of being rotted
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Māori:
whakaeronga
— the state of being rotted
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Russian:
гние́ние
(gnijénije)
— the state of being rotted
