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
Transfixed with astonishment, she cries: "I am putrified!"
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
The meat putrified as usual, but did not breed maggots; while the same kind of meat exposed in open jars swarmed with them.
From Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation by George McCready Price
