putrefy

verb

Etymology: From Middle French putréfier.

1. To fester or rot and exude a fetid stench.
2. To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
3. To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.

   “In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.”

4. To become gangrenous.
5. To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.

   “to putrefy an ulcer or wound”

6. To corrupt; to make foul.

   “Private suits do putrefy the public good.”

   “They would but stink, and putrefy the air.”