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- verb Present participle of
putrify . - verb Alternative spelling of
putrefying .
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Examples
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Herbal, such multitudes are there to be found in moist hot weather, especially in the Summer time, on all kind of putrifying substances, which, whether they do more properly belong to the _Classis_ of _Mushrooms_, or
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Mexico in September 1910 could be compared to a shiny apple whose glossy skin conceals a putrifying interior.
The Mexican Revolution: a nation in flux - part 1 (1910-20) 2008
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Mexico in September 1910 could be compared to a shiny apple whose glossy skin conceals a putrifying interior.
The Mexican Revolution: a nation in flux - part 1 (1910-20) 2008
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I strongly disapprove of wasting good ground to bury putrifying bodies.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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WATSON: We do see that the Haitians are wearing these masks all the time, either makeshift masks or real medical masks, and I think there is a real fear among the people that I have spoken with that they will get sick somehow just from the smell of putrifying bodies in the air.
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Mexico in September 1910 could be compared to a shiny apple whose glossy skin conceals a putrifying interior.
The Mexican Revolution: a nation in flux - part 1 (1910-20) 2008
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Jeremiah Wright, and the police slaughter of Sean Bell, have pulled the scab off the still-putrifying wound of white supremacy once again ... and Obama is finding that rhetoric about "racial reconciliation" cannot fume itself into reality.
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And the idea that many reasonable people held at that time was that constipation or even mild constipation allowed the ‘putrifying’ feces within the colon and even the contents of the small intestine to make its way from the colon into the blood and thence throughout the body.
‘Cures’ of the past; implications for the present | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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Her motherhood clings like a putrifying miasma to every word, whilst simultaneously producing an illusion of quality so the uninitiated reader cannot see the rot.
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He is, as his name so plainly states, a feeder on the carrion of putrifying human lives.
The Case of Dr. Condor Dawes, Bill 2006
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