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putrescent

[pyoo-tres-uhnt] / pyuˈtrɛs ənt /








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The pinkish, putrescent, rurally located lagoons have been a source of concern for decades.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 30, 2018

Emily Browning, who embodies Dead Wife Laura Moon as both ferociously loyal and frustratingly troubled, didn’t either – but we'd like to give her the most fly-attracting, putrescent prize we can imagine this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2017

He will expound on the archaic waste-disposal operations that once flourished on the creek, conjuring scenes of putrescent horse carcasses floating in on barges from Manhattan and docks piled with manure three stories high.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2012

Allied officers, probing the putrescent wound of Buchenwald, unexpectedly discovered a sound human core which promised much for the future of Germany�2,000 German prisoners who had a plan for a liberal, anti-fascist Reich.

From Time Magazine Archive

Walls that only nature could form reared themselves high in the putrescent air of the room; they curved into a ceiling, and from that ceiling there hung a glittering array of gems.

From Brood of the Dark Moon by Diffin, Charles Willard