Putrefactive

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or causing putrefaction.

    "And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid Handling Machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction wordnet

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decayeddozyfoulgangrenousputrefacientputrefacient

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"And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid Handling Machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; […]"

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