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PUTRIFY

Definition: PUTRIFY

PUTRIFY

Intransitive & transitive verb

1. To putrefy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PUTRIFY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Modern Translation: PUTRIFY

Language Translations for "PUTRIFY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Scottish

  

lobh (become putrid, make putrid, putrefy Irish lobhaim). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

braenu (rot). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PUTRIFY"

Words rhyming with "PUTRIFY" (pronounced 'Pu"tri*fy'): Acidify, Adsignify, Aerify, Alacrify, Angelify, Anglicify, Anglify, Arefy, Argufy, Balmify, Basify, Beatify, Bonify, Brutify, Candify, Capacify, Carnify, Celestify, Certify, Chondrify, Chylify, Chymify, Classify, Cockneyfy, Codify, Consignify, Corporify, Correctify, Countrify, Crucify, Cuffy, Daintify, Damnify, Dandify, Decalcify, Deify, Devitrify, Finify, Fishify, Foolify, Foresignify, Frenchify, Fumify, Glorify, gratify, horrify, indemnify, interstratify, jellify, jiffy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PUTRIFY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-i-p-r-t-u-y"

-1 letter: fruity, purify, purity.

-2 letters: fruit, turfy.

-3 letters: frit, fury, pfui, pity, puri, rift, trip, turf, yurt.

-4 letters: fir, fit, fry, fur, pit, piu, pry, pur, put, rif, rip, rut, tip, try, tui, tup, yip, yup.

-5 letters: if, it, pi, ti, up, ut.

 Words containing the letters "f-i-p-r-t-u-y"
 

+3 letters: profundity, putrefying.

 

+4 letters: superfluity.

 

+5 letters: purificatory, sprightfully, unprofitably.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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