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putrid adjective. LME.
[Latin putridus or (sense 4) putris, from putrere rot, from putr-, puter rotten: see -ID1.]
In a state of decomposition; putrefied, rotten. LME.
J. S. Huxley The putrid remains of a whale carcass.
Pertaining to, causing, resulting from, or infected with putrefaction; foul. LME.
putrid fever typhus.
Shelley Their bones Bleaching unburied in the putrid blast. B. England They fell through the green scum..releasing a great gout of putrid gases.
fig. Morally corrupt; aesthetically abominable; suggestive of putrefaction; noxious, corrupting; colloq. appalling, very unpleasant, contemptible. E17.
Milton Teaching to his Son all those putrid and pernicious documents, both of State and Religion. D. L. Sayers Some putrid fool sliced a ball..and got me slap-bang in the eye. M. Atwood I hate those neo-expressionist dirty greens and putrid oranges.
Of soil: loose, crumbling, friable. M17-L18.
pu'tridity noun (a) putrid condition, corruption, rottenness, decay (lit. & fig.); (b) putrid matter: M17.
putridly adverb L19.
putridness noun putrid condition, rottenness L17.