Crossword-Solution: PUTREFACTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Putrefaction | n. | The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter. |
| Putrefaction | n. | The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “PUTREFACTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor | 1 answer |
| sepsis | 2 answers |
| gangrene | 11 answers |
| fetidness | 22 answers |
| putrescence | 22 answers |
| fust | 22 answers |
| foul breath | 22 answers |
| fetor | 23 answers |
| rankness | 23 answers |
| AWFUL smell | 26 answers |
| Redolence | 29 answers |
| Stench | 30 answers |
| Decomposition | 30 answers |
| Effluvium | 31 answers |
| Reek | 31 answers |
| miasma | 34 answers |
| Stink | 35 answers |
| bad Smell | 37 answers |
| mould | 41 answers |
| Odor | 42 answers |
| Impurity | 44 answers |
| Odour | 57 answers |
| Rot | 58 answers |
| Decadence | 61 answers |
| Decay | 65 answers |
| Smell | 69 answers |
| foulness | 69 answers |
| contamination | 70 answers |
| pollution | 72 answers |
| Offence | 73 answers |
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Sentences with PUTREFACTION (5)
And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.
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.
See Bacterium.] (Biol.) A micro”rganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction.
Though the man was but new dead, the ghost was already putrefied, as though putrefaction were the mark and of the essence of a spirit.
For the first, the ornaments of images gilt, or of marble, which are in use, do well: but the main matter is so to convey the water, as it never stay, either in the bowls or in the cistern; that the water be never by rest discolored, green or red or the like; or gather any mossiness or putrefaction.
Quotes with PUTREFACTION (3)
Our present system is unique in world history, because over and above its physical and economic constraints, it demands of us total surrender of our souls, continuous and active participation in the general, conscious lie. To this putrefaction of the soul, this spiritual enslavement, human beings who wish to be human cannot consent. When Caesar, having exacted what is Caesar's, demands still more insistently that we render him what is God's — that is a sacrifice we dare not make!
Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial grief dividing and multiplying till its weight is the weight of the world. Bacteria: agents of putrefaction. My father's decay lodged in me.
We must be willing to get rid ofthe life we’ve planned, so as to havethe life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shedbefore the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up.