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putrescent

[ pyoo-tres-uhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

putrescent

/ pjuːˈtrɛsənt /

1725–35; < Latin putrēscent- (stem of putrēscēns ), present participle of putrēscere to grow rotten

C18: from Latin putrescere to become rotten

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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