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Meaning of "putrescent" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PUTRESCENT

From Latin putrescere to become rotten.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PUTRESCENT

putrescent  [pjuːˈtrɛsənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUTRESCENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Putrescent is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PUTRESCENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of putrescent in the English dictionary

The definition of putrescent in the dictionary is becoming putrid; rotting. Other definition of putrescent is characterized by or undergoing putrefaction.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PUTRESCENT


accrescent
æˈkrɛsənt
adularescent
əˌdjʊləˈrɛsənt
antidepressant
ˌæntɪdɪˈprɛsənt
arborescent
ˌɑːbəˈrɛsənt
calorescent
ˌkæləˈrɛsənt
crescent
ˈkrɛsənt
decrescent
dɪˈkrɛsənt
depressant
dɪˈprɛsənt
excrescent
ɪkˈskrɛsənt
florescent
flɔːˈrɛsənt
fluorescent
ˌflʊəˈrɛsənt
glabrescent
ɡleɪˈbrɛsənt
increscent
ɪnˈkrɛsənt
nigrescent
naɪˈɡrɛsənt
nonfluorescent
ˌnɒnflʊəˈrɛsənt
phosphorescent
ˌfɒsfəˈrɛsənt
subarborescent
ˌsʌbɑːbəˈrɛsənt
suppressant
səˈprɛsənt
virescent
vɪˈrɛsənt
vitrescent
vɪˈtrɛsənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUTRESCENT

putrefacient
putrefaction
putrefactive
putrefiable
putrefied
putrefier
putrefies
putrefy
putrescence
putrescibility
putrescible
putrescine
putrid
putridity
putridly
putridness
putsch
putschist
putt

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUTRESCENT

adolescent
ascent
chemiluminescent
convalescent
descent
effervescent
Fertile Crescent
incandescent
iridescent
line of descent
luminescent
nascent
photoluminescent
prepubescent
quiescent
recent
Red Crescent
reminiscent
scent
senescent
the crescent

Synonyms and antonyms of putrescent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PUTRESCENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «putrescent» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of putrescent

Translation of «putrescent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PUTRESCENT

Find out the translation of putrescent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of putrescent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «putrescent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

腐烂的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

putrescent
570 millions of speakers

English

putrescent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

putrescent
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متفسخ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

гнилостный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

putrescente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পচনশীল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

putrescent
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Putrescent
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verwesend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

腐敗
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

putrescent
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Putrescent
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

putrescent
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துர் நாற்றத்துடன் கெட்டுப் போகிற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पर्स्रेसेंट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çürümekte olan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

putrescente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gnilnych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гнильний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

în putrefacție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

που βρίσκεται σε αποσύνθεση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rottings
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

putrescent
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

infisert
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of putrescent

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUTRESCENT»

The term «putrescent» is regularly used and occupies the 107.957 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PUTRESCENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «putrescent» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «putrescent» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about putrescent

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUTRESCENT»

Discover the use of putrescent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to putrescent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Putrescent Petra Finds Friends: Caught'ya! Grammar with a ...
With Putrescent Petra Finds Friends, second-grade students will have fun learning vocabulary and practicing punctuation, capitalization, verb tenses, and paragraphing skills as they follow the adventures of a skunk who befriends a classroom ...
Jane Bell Kiester, 2013
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Reports of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the ...
I" Peculiar acid putrescent odour < Faint acid, sewage odour [ Putrescent odour f Very faint putrescent odour - \ Do. do. L Tar odour - r Putrescent odour i Acid putrescent odour - L Very faint putrescent odour I" Garlic odour ... I Acid putrescent ...
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Origin and Nature, &c. of the Cattle Plague, 1866
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Report of the Commissioners Appointed in 1898 to Inquire and ...
Black, black sediment. Putrescent. Sulphuretted hydrogen gas. Fluorescent, brown sediment. Earthy smell. Black, with black sediment. Slight putrescent and sulphuretted hydrogen gas smell. Slightly turbid, grey sediment. Slight putrescent and ...
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal, 1908
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Report by E.A. Letts and W.E. Adeney: On the Pollution of ...
Black, black sediment. Putrescent. Sulphuretted hydrogen gas. Fluorescent, brown sediment. Earthy smell. Black, with black sediment. Slight putrescent and sulphuretted hydrogen gas smell. Slightly turbid, grey sediment. Slight putrescent and ...
E. A. Letts, W. E. Adeney, Great Britain. Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal, 1908
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Papers by command
Black, black sediment. Putrescent. Sulphuretted hydrogen gas. Fluorescent, brown sediment. Earthy smell. Black, with black sediment. Slight putrescent and sulphuretted hydrogen gas smell. Slightly turbid, grey sediment. Slight putrescent and ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1908
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Farmers' register
In our own case, we have not only almost ceased to supply marl (for the above reason,) but have become as ardent as is Mr. Turner for applying putrescent manures on the lands where the marl " has had its day," and where, before marling, ...
Edmund Ruffin, 1842
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THE FARMERS' REGISTER: A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO THE ...
No advocate for the use of calcareous manures, who knew any thing of their true operation, has recommended their continued repetition— or their being substituted for putrescent, or for all other manures. In our own case, we have not only ...
‎1842
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The Farmers' Register: A Monthly Publication, Devoted to the ...
In our own ca.se, we have not only almost ceased to supply marl (for the above reason,) but have become as ardent as is Mr. Turner for applying putrescent manures on the lands where the marl " has had its day," and where, before marling, ...
‎1842
9
An Essay on Calcareous Manures
So far as to the absolute permanency of putrescent or alimentary manures supplied by nature. Next let us see whether the same reasoning, and also experience, so far as yet obtained, do not in like manner prove the permanency of putrescent ...
Edmund Ruffin, 1852
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Dental Items of Interest
Dcscripttattrjiliutraiiois. Tl§. I. The upper, right, central incisor was found to be putrescent on July 2nd, 1917. It was treated with formalin and dressed. The canal was filled on July 10th, one week later. This radiograph was taken November 28th, ...
‎1919

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUTRESCENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term putrescent is used in the context of the following news items.
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Oh deer, stay out of the gardens
"The base that they typically use for that is a putrescent egg solids - rotten eggs." Ewwww. "The other thing that they tend to try to put in is some taste, often ... «Nashua Telegraph, Jul 15»
2
Would You Use an App to Pick Up Your Trash?
The trash bags grow putrescent. The sight of the mattress induces nausea and dizziness. In situations like these, one wishes there were an Uber for trash. «CityLab, Jul 15»
3
Berry farmers slam plan for Skye waste transfer station
It's not putrescent waste,” Mr Aitken said. “There's no landfill and no bulldozers … there's no prospect of dust. Everybody agrees recycling is a good thing to do.”. «Herald Sun, Jan 15»
4
A blast at our smug theatre: Edward Bond on Sarah Kane
The chooser of the longest straw must - but we forget to ask what it must do. Instead we see that the children are sitting on a naked body. The body is putrescent. «The Guardian, Jan 15»
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NBA's Futility Record Seems Safe, Even From These Knicks and 76ers
So why have none of these putrescent teams knocked the Sixers off their perch? And why have so many played well, or at least better, very late in the season? «New York Times, Jan 15»
6
From the archive, 25 December 1824: typhus fever rages in …
... not a meeting be called, and a subscription entered into, for the purpose of carrying away the loads of putrescent filth which infect so many of our back streets. «The Guardian, Dec 14»
7
Halloween Flap Triggers Outbreak Of Idiocy
... parents who send their tween to school in a slutty Cleopatra costume or as a zombie whose realistically putrescent flesh frightens the kindergartners. «Hartford Courant, Oct 14»
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A detailed look at life in the trenches as told by the war heroes who …
In front and behind the line, along communications trenches, everywhere putrescent bodies! “The parapets were built up with them they served as directing ... «Bradford Telegraph and Argus, Oct 14»
9
Babymetal shreds heavy-metal's seriousness at the Fonda
In a genre in which bands are on a quest to find the most offensive, putrescent sounds and imagery, can that loathsomeness be directed at the expectations of ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 14»
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Why Hillary Will Flop
... Congress and undo his own dubious accomplishment or fight a bitter rear-guard action hoping that somehow this putrescent legislation stops stinking. «American Thinker, Mar 14»

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