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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The whole Mass was encompass'd with a callous Matter, under which they found all the Parts of a Child harden'd and half putrified; and these weigh'd Eight Pound.

From Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites by Jacob, Giles