(verb.) become putrid; decay with an offensive smell; 'organic matter putrefies'.
编辑:沃伦
双语例句
The very rats, which here and there lay putrefying in its rottenness, were hideous with famine. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
Twenty were exposed to the air on the heights of the Jura at an altitude of eight hundred and fift y meters above sea-level; the contents of five of these subsequently putrefied. 李贝.西洋科学史.