putrefy

To fester or rot and exude a fetid stench.

To become filled with a pus-like or bile-like substance.

To reach an advanced stage of decomposition.

In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.

To become gangrenous.

To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous.

to putrefy an ulcer or wound