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putrid
 
SYLLABICATION:pu·trid
PRONUNCIATION:  pytrd
ADJECTIVE:1. Decomposed and foul-smelling; rotten. 2. Proceeding from, relating to, or exhibiting putrefaction. 3. Morally rotten; corrupt: “and all the while scarlet thoughts, putrid fantasies, and no love” (Louis Auchincloss). 4. Extremely objectionable; vile.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English putred, from Old French putride, from Latin putridus, from putrre, to be rotten, from puter, putr-, rotten. See p- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:pu·tridi·ty (-trd-t) , putrid·ness (-trd-ns) —NOUN
putrid·ly —ADVERB
 
 
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