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/pjuːtɹˈɛsəns/
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NOUN
- in a state of progressive putrefaction
- the quality of rotting and becoming putrid
How To Use putrescence In A Sentence
- I look back with great fondness, espescially my 'shallow-grave' experience I had at the age of 9, where our group came across disturbed earth out near 'our' club-place in the suburbs of Houston accompanied by the smell of putrescence ... The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 22 - The Dangerous Animals Club | /Film
- Most episodes have a line or two that will just crack you up because of their putrescence.
- Textually, his ‘work’ orchestrates a cacophony of human ruin and putrescence.
- Altogether these produced a breakdown in the cellular structure of the body, evident in the putrescence of the flesh and bones of sufferers.
- The fermentative saprophyte is as absolutely essential to the setting up of destructive rotting or putrescence in a putrescible fluid as the torula is to the setting up of alcoholic fermentation in a saccharine fluid. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
- Môt, which some call watery slime, and others putrescence of watery secretion. History of Phoenicia
- Is it bad that as soon as I read "putrescence" I started envisioning the Princess Bride.... Purging the Evil Within
- In precisely the same way, provide a proteinaceous solution, capable of the highest putrescence, but absolutely sterilized, and placed in an optically pure or absolutely calcined air; and while these conditions are maintained, no matter what length of time may be suffered to elapse, the putrescible fluid will remain absolutely without trace of decay. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
- He was so close that I could smell putrescence coming from him.
- The liver cell and renal tubular cell showed to dissolve putrescence.