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mätä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • addle adj Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
  • carrion noun The decaying flesh of a dead animal.
  • fishy adj Tasting, smelling, or resembling fish.
  • pus noun A thick yellowish-white fluid made up of dead white blood cells and bacteria that forms at the site of an infection.
  • putrefaction noun The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
  • putrid adj Rotting and giving off a foul smell.
  • rotten adj Decayed and spoiled, especially of food.

Senses

mätä is used for these senses in English:

  • addle Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
  • carrion (figurative) Corrupt or horrid matter.
  • fishy (figurative) Suspicious; inspiring doubt.
  • pus (medicine, pathology) A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
  • putrefaction Rotten material.
  • putrid Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
  • rotten In a state of decay.
  • rotten Bad or terrible.

addle — full definition

  1. adj Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
  2. adj Unfruitful or confused; muddled.

carrion — full definition

  1. noun The decaying flesh of a dead animal.
  2. adj Relating to or consisting of dead, rotting flesh.

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