GRE Word List

PUTREFY

to make putrid

The meaning of the word putrefy is to make putrid.

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tenancya holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate
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pterodactylany of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition
quotidianoccurring every day
suppositionsomething that is supposed : hypothesis
sordidmarked by baseness or grossness : vile
whineto utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry