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putrescent

adjective as in corrupt

adjective as in decayed

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Example Sentences

They smell sweetly putrescent, like a forgotten gym towel in a hot car.

An impossible scheme of reconstruction was trailing its slow, putrescent length along.

I have twice given water saturated with fixed air in a fever of the putrescent kind, and it agreed very well with the patients.

And off what are those two ravens rising, stirring up with their obscene wings a sickly, putrescent odour?

Pyrolignous acid possesses, in a very eminent degree, anti-putrescent properties.

Many are very large and ponderous; fleshy and putrescent, decaying soon after maturity.

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

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