Putresce

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.]