Putrescence

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being putrid; decay countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the quality of rotting and becoming putrid wordnet
  3. 3
    Putrid matter countable, uncountable

    "Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast, …"

  4. 4
    in a state of progressive putrefaction wordnet

Synonyms

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cariescarrioncorruptiondecaydecompositiondry rot

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Etymology

Medieval Latin putrēscentia.

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