Ordinarily sewage does not putresce until from twenty-four to sixty hours after its discharge. --Nature. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
putresce — pu·tresce … English syllables
putresce — pyü.ˈtres intransitive verb ( ed/ ing/ s) Etymology: Latin putrescere : to become putrescent or putrid : putrefy … Useful english dictionary
-esce — a suffix appearing in verbs borrowed from Latin, where it had an inchoative meaning: convalesce; putresce. [ < L escere] * * * … Universalium
break up — Synonyms and related words: ablate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, amuse, analyze, anatomize, assay, atomize, be in stitches, beguile, better, bite the dust, break, break down, break into pieces, break open, break to pieces, burst … Moby Thesaurus
canker — Synonyms and related words: abscess, adulterate, alloy, aposteme, bed sore, blain, blast, bleb, blight, blister, boil, break up, bubo, bulla, bunion, cancer, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, cheapen, chilblain, coarsen, cold sore,… … Moby Thesaurus
corrupt — Synonyms and related words: abandoned, abase, aberrant, abroad, abuse, adrift, adulterate, afflict, aggrieve, alienate, all abroad, all off, all wrong, alloy, amiss, amoral, approach, approachable, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bad, baneful,… … Moby Thesaurus
crumble — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, abrade, atomize, bate, be eaten away, beat, bite the dust, bray, break, break down, break up, brecciate, canker, cave in, collapse, come apart, come to dust, come unstuck, comminute, conk out, consume,… … Moby Thesaurus
decay — Synonyms and related words: ablate, ablation, atomization, atomize, atrophy, biodegradability, biodegradation, break down, break up, breakup, canker, caries, carrion, catalysis, catalyst, collapse, come apart, consume, contaminate, corrode,… … Moby Thesaurus
decompose — Synonyms and related words: ablate, anatomize, atomize, break down, break up, canker, come apart, consume, corrode, corrupt, crack up, crumble, crumble into dust, decay, deliquesce, disintegrate, disjoin, disorganize, dissect, dissolve, erode,… … Moby Thesaurus
disintegrate — Synonyms and related words: ablate, abrade, atomize, beat, bite the dust, blow to pieces, blow up, brain, bray, break, break down, break open, break to pieces, break up, brecciate, bring down, burn to death, burst, canker, carry away, cave in,… … Moby Thesaurus
