putrification

Until today I had no idea that “putrification” was considered profane or indecent.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Yale University Press Buys Into the Blame-the-Speaker Approach: 2009

Until today I had no idea that “putrification” was considered profane or indecent.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Yale University Press Buys Into the Blame-the-Speaker Approach: 2009

Until today I had no idea that “putrification” was considered profane or indecent.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Yale University Press Buys Into the Blame-the-Speaker Approach: 2009

Until today I had no idea that “putrification” was considered profane or indecent.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Yale University Press Buys Into the Blame-the-Speaker Approach: 2009

Power generation continues for up to 48 hours following cardio-pulmonary shut-down, and auto-deployed embalming sachets delay the corpse/shelter's putrification until well after her owner's rescue.

Ned Goldreyer: Super Pets Last All Winter Long 2009

This moral putrification cascades from its captains all the way down to the working level of this evil business.

Make Sure America Gets the Correct "Change," Mr. President-Elect 2008

Sad to say, Geyer did not catch the killer before he took the lives of the children, but Geyer does describe his nausea at discovering their bodies -- not because of the crushing sadness of their horrifying murders or his own failure to save them (and there is nothing remotely touching these points to be found between the covers of this awful book), but because of their state of putrification, carefully described.

My Queer Books 2005

While Alucius had hoped to return the bodies to Emal or Dekhron, the heat and the overly rapid putrification had made burial necessary as soon as they had cleared the mountains and reached an area where there was actually soil.

Darkness Modesitt, L. E. 2003

As I thought I made clear to you, there is no sign of any such putrification near any of the homes of the victims.

LADY of SKYE PATRICIA CABOT 2001

The half-rotted carcasses of beached fish, washed into the tunnel from a high tide swollen by storm rains, shimmered with the strange, evil light of putrification.

Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988