| putrefactive | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefacient |
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| putrefiable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrescible, spoilable |
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| putrefy | (verb) become putrid; decay with an offensive smell | - |
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| putrescence | (noun) the quality of rotting and becoming putrid | Synonyms: rottenness |
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| (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putridness, rottenness |
| putrescent | (adjective) becoming putrid | - |
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| putrescible | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrefiable, spoilable |
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| putrescine | (noun) a colorless crystalline ptomaine with a foul odor that is produced in decaying animal matter | - |
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| putrid | (adjective) of or relating to or attended by putrefaction | - |
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| (adjective) morally corrupt or evil | - |
| (adjective) in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor | - |
| putridity | (noun) the state of being putrid | - |
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| putridness | (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putrescence, rottenness |
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| putsch | (noun) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force | Synonyms: coup, coup d'etat, takeover |
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| putt | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putting |
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| (verb) strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter | - |
| (verb) hit a putt | - |
| puttee | (noun) a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I | - |
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| putter | (noun) the iron normally used on the putting green | Synonyms: putting iron |
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| (noun) a golfer who is putting | - |
| (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around |
| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: potter |
| putterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: potterer |
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| putting | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putt |
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| putty | (noun) a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass | - |
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| (verb) apply putty in order to fix or fill | - |
| puttyroot | (noun) North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers | Synonyms: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale |
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| putz | (noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, shaft, tool |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot | - |
| puzzle | (noun) a game that tests your ingenuity | - |
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| (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzler, teaser |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide | - |
| puzzled | (adjective) filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at a loss, nonplused, nonplussed |
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| puzzlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation |
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| puzzler | (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzle, teaser |
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| puzzling | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, enigmatical |
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| (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, perplexing |