'Putresce' definitions:
Definition of 'Putresce'
From: GCIDE
- Putresce \Pu*tresce"\, v. i. [See Putrescent.] To become putrescent or putrid; to putrefy.
- Ordinarily sewage does not putresce until from twenty-four to sixty hours after its discharge. --Nature. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]