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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
putrefy .
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Examples
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In fact, they are just announcing the fact that they are putting a trademarked brand name on run-of-the-mill USDA-whatever meat, and then guaranteeing that they won't sell it once it putrefies.
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The intestines of modern-day Homo sapiens are no longer ideal for digesting meat, as they are so long (almost 28 feet), the meat often putrefies by the time it gets to the end.
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Soon, it putrefies into a machine that fails to win even elections...
Savitri Era Party is the alternative Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Soon, it putrefies into a machine that fails to win even elections...
Archive 2009-07-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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There, once microbes consume all available oxygen, the corpse putrefies into toxic skeletal sludge.
Archive 2009-07-01 Will 2009
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The paper also explains a fallacy often put forward by Natural Hygienists, that carnivores have short GI tracts because “they must get rid of the meat quickly before it putrefies”.
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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The caged Gramsci wannabe leader-banana, biting before he putrefies, reveals delusion, derangement and dangerous incoherence; a pubescent Miliband mashing and spewing puerile "progressive" views of Britain circa 2020, which by sheer velocity of delivery, leave even cheerleader Naughtie out of breath and voice.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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There, once microbes consume all available oxygen, the corpse putrefies into toxic skeletal sludge.
DesignerBlog Will 2009
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My ownership of any detergent immediately putrefies it.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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If it strikes you, you swell up and die of gross distention, for the swollen body putrefies immediately after...
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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