To cause to dissolve; to disorganize and reduce to the simple constituent elements, as animal or vegetable bodies; to cause to rot. Heat and moisture soon putrefy dead flesh’ or vegetables.

To corrupt; to make foul; as, to putrefy the air.

To make morbid, carious or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.

To dissolve and return to the original distinct elements, as animal and vegetable substances deprived of the living principle; to rot.