putrified

Example Sentences

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Only instead of feeling nausea from watching a man drown in a tub of putrified pig guts, you're bawling your eyes out because someone's dad has just keeled over with stomach cancer.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2010

He lamented that her voice had evaporated, but noted that "it has fled this impure, debasing, putrified air which was going to smother it, petrify it, degrade it!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Mountain Man Moses Harris tells of his trip through a "putrified" forest where the grass snaps "like pipe stems."

From Time Magazine Archive

Transfixed with astonishment, she cries: "I am putrified!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Then there was another thundering let-go of astonishment and excitement; but Jubiter, which was astonished enough before, was just fairly putrified with astonishment this time.

From Tom Sawyer, Detective by Twain, Mark