putrefaction

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There would also have been lots of spices to help hide putrefaction.

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Quick take

a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

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The clearest senses and uses of putrefaction gathered in one view.

noun

a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

noun

(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

noun

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for putrefaction.

noun

a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor

noun

(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

noun

Example sentences

There would also have been lots of spices to help hide putrefaction.

How much meat can I eat before protein putrefaction kicks in?

The sweet smell of putrefaction from the truck made me retch for the first week and then became kind of homely.

Before refrigeration and large glass tanks the time between edibility and putrefaction was probably on the order of hours.

The overcrowding turned Paris into an “immense workshop of putrefaction, where misery, the plague, and disease work together in harmony,”.

[6] When the twenty-day festival was over, the flayed skins were removed and stored in special containers with tight-fitting lids designed to stop the stench of putrefaction from escaping.

In 1845, the French social reformer Victor Considerant wrote: "Paris is an immense workshop of putrefaction, where misery, pestilence and sickness work in concert, where sunlight and air rarely penetrate.