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putrescent
adjective as in corrupt
adjective as in decayed
adjective as in rancid
adjective as in rank
adjective as in rotten
adjective as in unclean
Weak matches
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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