putrefactive en · ADJ
Meanings
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Of, pertaining to, or causing putrefaction.
And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid Handling Machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; […]
1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Dead London”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book II (The Earth under the Martians), page 282:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most putrefactive | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more putrefactive | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
putrefactiveness · antiputrefactive
Translations (3)
el σηπτικός (pertaining to or causing putrefaction) · bg гнилостен (pertaining to or causing putrefaction) · grc σηπτικός (pertaining to or causing putrefaction)