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Meanings of putrefy in English

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Usage of putrefy in English
1
Persians do not putrefy in the hot sun the way Europeans do.
Julian
2
Stay either to putrefy with pleasure or to be embalmed in dulness?
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")
3
We bind those things tightly with a woman's hair, and they putrefy.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
4
Have thy sins corrupted thy wounds, and made them putrefy and stink?
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
5
These, beginning to putrefy, were turning green beneath a river of blood.
Down There
6
When the moisture of the breath is condensed and collected, it will putrefy.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
7
These reserves putrefy and decompose, but the brutes carry on accumulating them incessantly.
Metro 2034
8
All the remainder was left to putrefy, or be devoured by wild beasts.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, ...
9
The wounds will putrefy if you don't put something on them.
Bones of the Dragon
10
I crush them into my heart, and there let them putrefy!
The Snow Image
11
The result: Corpses do not putrefy in the great outdoors.
Death du Jour
12
Fourth: More apt to putrefy and thus give ptomaine poisoning.
Diet and Health; With Key to the Calories
13
In one place evil liquids and gases will percolate; in another evil accumulations will putrefy.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
14
Everything they touched immediately started to rot and putrefy.
The Alchemyst
15
Thou makest the shells to swell, the wine to bubble, and the corpse to putrefy!
Salammbo
16
Even in this weather it will putrefy.
Surrender to the will of the night
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