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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of putrify.

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Examples

  • "Yes, but it were a good while afterwards I was on boad [sic] a whaler, and I saw something floating that looked like a great lump of chalk, and when we picked it up, who should it turn out to be but Safety Jack, what they call putrified, and turned to something like white coral."

    Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 2 1847

  • A one-word review of "putrified" would be sufficient.

    Review: Petrified (2006) platyjoe 2006

  • A one-word review of "putrified" would be sufficient.

    Archive 2006-11-01 platyjoe 2006

  • The frightened miller was "putrified," as Mrs. Malaprop would say, at the sight, and a push from the white spectre brought the unfortunate man to the ground, when away rode the gallant quartermaster with his sacks of flour, which, at length bursting, made a ludicrous spectacle of man and horse.

    The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

  • The frightened miller was "putrified," as Mrs. Malaprop would say, at the sight, and a push from the white spectre brought the unfortunate man to the ground, when away rode the gallant quartermaster with his sacks of flour, which, at length bursting, made a ludicrous spectacle of man and horse.

    Reminiscences of Captain Gronow Gronow, Rees Howell, 1794-1865 1862

  • The Bush's started out OK with Prescott Bush but heirs have ideas that have have putrified like a good steak standing on a table uneaten for hours. sadieg45

    Jeb Bush: 'I don't know' if Obama is a socialist 2009

  • Yukiko meant to make sure that he putrified and boiled with maggots, like a dog.

    Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010

  • Yukiko meant to make sure that he putrified and boiled with maggots, like a dog.

    Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010

  • The larvae are aquatic, often called “rat-tailed maggots,” and live in putrified liquids, like rain water in animal carcasses.

    Creationism really is a science stopper - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • The liberal weinies spew nothing but putrified, immature, uninformed, hot air.

    Tea Party Email Warns Members: Beware Liberal Trolls Like Rachel Maddow 2010

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  • "I was most putrified with astonishment when you give me that smack." HF 33

    December 8, 2006