Crossword-Solution: PUTRESCENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Putrescence | n. | The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “PUTRESCENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| in a state of progressive putrefaction | 1 answer |
| fust | 22 answers |
| foul breath | 22 answers |
| fetidness | 22 answers |
| rankness | 23 answers |
| fetor | 23 answers |
| AWFUL smell | 26 answers |
| putrefaction | 27 answers |
| Redolence | 29 answers |
| Stench | 30 answers |
| Decomposition | 30 answers |
| Reek | 31 answers |
| Effluvium | 31 answers |
| miasma | 34 answers |
| Stink | 35 answers |
| bad Smell | 37 answers |
| Odor | 42 answers |
| Impurity | 44 answers |
| Odour | 57 answers |
| Rot | 58 answers |
| Grime | 61 answers |
| Decay | 65 answers |
| Smell | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PUTRESCENCE (5)
This vital putrescence of the dust, used as we are to it, yet strikes us with occasional disgust, and the profusion of worms in a piece of ancient turf, or the air of a marsh darkened with insects, will sometimes check our breathing so that we aspire for cleaner places.
Gosse conjectures that its use may be, by holding animalcules till they die and decay, to attract by their putrescence crowds of other animalcules, which may thus be drawn within the influence of the polype’s ciliated tentacles.
Owen mentions an instance in which the left arm and hand of a fetus were found in a state of putrescence from strangulation, the funis being tightly bound around at the upper part.
One of the brothers died some days before the other, and the survivor, after carrying about his dead brother, succumbed to "infection from putrescence." There was reported to have been born in Switzerland a double headed male monster, who in 1538, at the age of thirty, was possessed of a beard on each face, the two bodies fused at the umbilicus into a single lower extremity.
And as they touched them there was the swift dissolution, the melting away into putrescence of flesh and bone that I had witnessed when the dart touched fruit that time I had saved Rador--and upon this the Medusae gorged; pulsing lambently; their wondrous colours shifting, changing, glowing stronger; elfin moons now indeed, but satellites whose glimmering beauty was fed by death; alembics of enchantment whose glorious hues were sucked from horror.
Quotes with PUTRESCENCE (1)
Let him who thinks war is a glorious, golden thing, who loves to roll forth stirring words of exhortation, invoking honour and praise and valour and love of country … Let him but look at a little pile of sodden grey rags that cover half a skull and a shin-bone and what might have been its ribs, or at this skeleton lying on its side, resting half crouching as it fell, perfect that it is headless, and with the tattered clothing still draped round it; and let him realize how gra…