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    putrefaction


    1. His head is full of the swarm, full of the buzz and drone of putrefaction, and in the middle of the swarm he can see an empty eye socket staring out at him from this heart of darkness in the middle of a Devon farmyard


    2. The victim's body turned purple and then black, and within a few minutes he sank down dying, and the stench of his own putrefaction was in his nostrils even before death wrenched his soul from his rotting body


    3. putrefaction of all emerald earth


    4. The smell of the putrefaction made Max start to vomit


    5. They smelt of vomit and putrefaction according to her, although to some extent it was the smell from the bedroom, permeating through the flat


    6. The goat’s fur was half off, its ribcage exposed, the flesh appeared to have been torn, and the body had already entered into a putrefaction stage


    7. something unpleasant, invoking the smell of putrefaction and


    8. putrefaction, selfishness and disregard for the pain they caused to undeserving bystanders


    9. always needed to consume the dead bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass


    10. fires were always needed to consume the dead bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it

    11. dead bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the


    12. tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place was cal ed Gehenna tou puros" A Greek-


    13. place, and filth and putrefaction, the corruption of the atmosphere, and the lurid fires blazing by


    14. that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place was called


    15. tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place was called Gehenna tou puros" A


    16. Albert Barnes in his commentary on Matthew 5:22: "The extreme loathsomeness of the place, and filth and putrefaction, the corruption of the atmosphere, and the lurid fires blazing by day and by night, made it one of the most appalling and terrific objects with which a Jew was ever acquainted


    17. And since fires were always needed to consume the dead bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place was called (Gehenna)


    18. And since fires were always needed to consume the dead bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place was called Gehenna tou puros" A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament, page 111


    19. Here the Savior’s words are plainly a citation from the last verse in the prophecies of Isaiah—where the context proves that the 'worm’ stands naturally for putrefaction, the concomitant of death, and in this case the death of those 'slain by Jehovah


    20. Albert Barnes in his commentary on Matthew 5:22 says, "The extreme loathsomeness of the place, and filth and putrefaction, the corruption of the atmosphere, and the lurid fires blazing by day and by night, made it one of the most appalling and terrific objects with which a Jew was ever acquainted

    21. And since fires were always needed to consume the dead bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place was called Gehenna tou puros" A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament, Page 111


    22. bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place


    23. Directly Rostov entered the door he was enveloped by a smell of putrefaction and hospital air


    24. The headlong precipitation of a people into the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon


    25. But by virtue of this natural selection of our kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a struggle, and to many--those that cause putrefaction in dead matter, for instance--our living frames are altogether immune


    26. The only feeling evinced was that of annoyance because of the bother caused by the necessity of getting this body, threatening putrefaction, out of the way


    27. Directly Rostóv entered the door he was enveloped by a smell of putrefaction and hospital air


    28. His body was horribly bloated and suggested the fetid, damp smell of putrefaction


    29. On the surface is seen a rich vegetable mould, made by the decay and putrefaction of vegetable substances


    30. —, animal, effect of, in preventing the putrefaction of stagnant water, x, 189

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    Synonyms for "putrefaction"

    corruption degeneracy depravation depravity putrefaction breakdown decomposition rot rotting taint adulteration contamination decay defilement foulness

    "putrefaction" definitions

    a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor


    (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action


    moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles