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Putrefied vs Carious - What's the difference?

putrefied | carious | Related terms |

Putrefied is a related term of carious.


As a verb putrefied

is (putrefy).

As an adjective carious is

having caries; decayed.

putrefied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (putrefy)

    • putrefy

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.
  • To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.
  • To become gangrenous.
  • To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.
    • to putrefy an ulcer or wound
  • To corrupt; to make foul.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Private suits do putrefy the public good.
  • * Shakespeare
    • They would but stink, and putrefy the air.

    Synonyms

    * decay * fester * rot

    Related terms

    * putrid * putrescent * putrefaction * putrescence

    See also

    * (Gangrene)

    carious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having caries; decayed.
  • *
  • * 1840 William Percivall, Hippopathology: a treatise on the disorders and lameness of the horse
    • My father's museum contained several preparations of carious teeth.