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putrefy

verb as in rot

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The late Palestinian poet’s new and collected work, Hoffman says, “beams through the current darkness: ‘After we die, / and the weary heart / has lowered its final eyelid / on all that we’ve done, / and on all that we’ve longed for, / on all that we’ve dreamt of, / all we’ve desired / or felt, / hate will be / the first thing / to putrefy / within us.’”

A: Obviously, meat will putrefy and smell awful.

In fact, if Meta truly wanted to help clean up the cesspool of misinformation that has been allowed to putrefy on social media, it would voluntarily adopt similar disclosures for political advertising throughout the United States and in foreign countries.

They attract rats, flies and other pests and tend to putrefy rather than break down, causing nasty smells, according to the Riverside County guide.

Tories can dress it up in different costumes, stick a Boris-style wig on it, spray it with perfume, but the idea itself has started to putrefy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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