putrefy

How To Use putrefy In A Sentence

• If these sugars cannot be broken down, they will sit in the large intestine and putrefy, leading to a bloated feeling and gas.
• We muft beg leave to abridge confix derably 'his pompous account of a putrefying animal fubftince* which is diffufed through four pages. The Monthly Review
• Mr. Ellis observed by his microscope near the surface of all putrefying vegetable or animal matter, which is the mucor or mouldiness; the vegetation of which was amazingly quick so as to be almost seen, and soon became so large as to be visible to the naked eye. Note I
• The smell of the putrefying corpses which lay around the walls and in the doura crop, together with the unhealthy climate and the filth of the town, was a fertile source of disease. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
• Anything organic is going to putrefy or ferment very, very rapidly.
• The bodies were left as a warning, to putrefy dangling in public.
• The taste was so putrefying that I felt as if I were about to double over.
• The body starts to putrefy within a minute or two of death, and bubbles of gas come up through the mouth.
• When an extremity has been invaded by bacteria and the blood supply is choked off, the limb begins to putrefy.
• Ganges water does not putrefy, even after long periods of storage.