(Biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action.
Breaking down of a body of a human or animal post-mortem.
Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles.
1 Alkaloids of putrefaction are constantly produced in every animal and human body.
2 This indeed is apparent to the senses in animals generated from putrefaction .
3 He went on, beginning to be conscious of the odor of putrefaction .
4 They exhibited most of all the corruption and putrefaction of German affairs.
5 Liquid putrefaction in the airways. Larabee sounded as frustrated as I felt.
6 At the edge of the bushes the smell of putrefaction was overpowering.
7 It wasn't the fetid smell of putrefaction , but a more primeval scent.
8 The stuff actually preserves tissue by killing the microorganisms that cause putrefaction .
9 Remember that all putrefaction is caused by the invisible creatures in the air.
10 He also studied the effect of cold in preventing animal putrefaction .
11 But no; the world was not such a bed of putrefaction .
12 It is the month of July, and the weather is favourable to putrefaction .
13 The light breeze carried over a revolting, fleshy stench, already tainted with putrefaction .
14 The retardation of putrefaction of the body after death sometimes presents interesting changes.
15 There is no sign of putrefaction or of life in any of them.
16 People saw them swarming and heard them buzzing in that seat of putrefaction .
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Putrefaction в диалектах
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