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

Reinforcing this vision of inferno are his colors: stark blacks, whites, umbers, reds, yellows, and ghastly phosphorescent greens of putrified corpses.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Now his condemnation damns the sales of any comestible as if it were visibly putrified; his praise is an advertisement beyond price.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most putrified core so fair without, Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life.

From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William