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putrefaction

[ UK /pjˌuːtɹɪfˈækʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
  2. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
    its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity
    the luxury and corruption among the upper classes
    moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration
    Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
  3. (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

How To Use putrefaction In A Sentence

  • Movies that look deeply into the human soul and uncover putrefaction are hard sells.
  • She too becomes a zombie, though that's not a bad thing because along with the putrefaction comes a dramatic rise in Patsy's sex appeal.
  • Most of these products were from natural sources, liable to putrefaction and of non - uniform quality.
  • It was the smell, the smell of his own dug-out, a vile odour of putrefaction, of rotting bodies, of blood, of stale human sweat. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • The ever-present bacteria in the stomach are thus permitted to attack the protein and putrefaction commences, rendering nutrients in the protein food largely useless to you and producing toxic wastes and foul gases, including such poisons as indol, skatol, phenol, hydrogen sulphide, phenylpropionic acid, and others. The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity
  • Reply Obj. 2: Christ's body was a subject of corruption according to the condition of its passible nature, but not as to the deserving cause of putrefaction, which is sin: but the Divine power preserved Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
  • Tyndall had shown that in the moving particles of fine dust discovered by a ray of light in a dark room the germs of low forms of life, which would cause putrefaction, were ever present, and ready to spring into life when a favorable "nidus" for the development of the organism was provided. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
  • Every time you scratch the surface, a terrifying smell of putrefaction comes out.
  • On a deeper level, I do believe that kids can intuit many aspects of the nihilist worldview - the possibility that suffering is meaningless, or that the only thing that happens after death is putrefaction.
  • It appears to be the remains of a dog, in a moderate state of putrefaction.
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