the process of decaying, especially that of a dead body 腐败;腐烂;(尸体)腐化 The smell was awful. Putrefaction had already set in. 味道很难闻。腐败已经开始了。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin putrefactio(n-), from putrefacere ‘make rotten’, from puter, putr- ‘rotten’.