putrefy
- v become putrid; decay with an offensive smell
- Corpses, left where they fell, putrefy in fields and farmyards amid the buzzing of flies and the howling of stray dogs.
- The new surrealist was Wolfgang Paalen, a Netherlands-born Parisian, whose particular Freudian fairyland looks like an Arthur Rackham landscape that has begun to putrefy.
- The dangling Communist dead are beginning to putrefy on the wire, and French planes drop leaflets in the enemy lines: "Remember Giap, the Butcher of Dienbienphu.