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putrescence
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Definition:the condition of being putrid
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[...] and a placid blue sea in front that could gulp down a person with a cramp in the twinkling of an eye and ship him back to shore three days later, all charges paid, bloated, blue and putrescent, water draining out through both cold nostrils.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22 (1961)
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The odour of factories and of chemical products now passed with the breeze which was simulated by means of fans; nature exhaled its sweet effluvia amid this putrescence.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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