Synonyms for Putrefying:
v.
•deteriorating (verb)mouldering, worsening, sliding, Slumping, fading, Dilapidating, tergiversating, downgrading, sinking, regressing, getting worse, Collapsing, waning, withering, slipping, deteriorating, atrophying, declining, wilting, retrogressing, falling apart, relapsing, reverting, lapsing, ebbing, going downhill.
•dirtying (verb)
Tainting, contaminating, Smearing, Defiling, Fouling, Tarnishing, Sullying, staining, Smudging, Streaking, smirching, Besmirching, soiling, Befouling, Muddying, Polluting, dirtying.
•disintegrating (verb)
mortifying, Dissecting, Anatomizing, shattering, Degenerating, turning, Crumbling, spoiling, decomposing, breaking, dissolving, rotting, Rupturing, Disintegrating, Fracturing, Decaying.
Usage examples for Putrefying
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The whole beach was covered with heaps of putrefying herrings: nets were scarcely ever thrown into the water, for the herrings were taken in loads on the land. – The Sand-Hills of Jutland by Hans Christian Andersen
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Others are rolled among thorns and spikes and putrefying flesh. – Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. by Dr. John Scudder