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Putrescent   Listen
adjective
Putrescent  adj.  
1.
Becoming putrid or rotten. "Externally powerful, although putrescent at the core."
2.
Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as, a putrescent smell.





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"Putrescent" Quotes from Famous Books



... corrosive sublimate is the most fatal poison to insects that is known. It is anti-putrescent; so is alcohol; and they are both colourless, of course; they cannot leave a stain behind them. The spirit penetrates the pores of the skin with wonderful velocity, deposits invisible particles of the sublimate and flies off. The sublimate will not injure the skin, and ...
— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton
... sooner worn out by a repetition of its stimuli, and those who indulge greatly in such diet are more likely to be carried off early by inflammatory diseases; or if, by judicious exercise, they qualify its effects, they yet acquire such an accumulation of putrescent fluids as becomes the foundation for the most inveterate chronic diseases ...
— Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages • William Andrus Alcott


Words linked to "Putrescent" :   putrescence, stale


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