putrescence

putrescence

noun

Definition of PUTRESCENCE

the process by which dead organic matter separates into simpler substances <in the far corner of the walk-in refrigerator was a crate of cucumbers in an advanced stage of putrescence>

Synonyms breakdown, decay, decomposition, festering, putrefaction, putrescence, rot, spoilage

Related Words crumbling, disintegration, dissolution; curdling, fermentation, moldering, souring

Near Antonyms growth, maturation, ripening