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adjective

Putrid adj.

Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.

Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.

Putrid fever (Med.), typhus fever; so called from the decomposing and offensive state of the discharges and diseased textures of the body.

Putrid sore throat (Med.), a gangrenous inflammation of the fauces and pharynx.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Putrid" Quotes from Famous Books

... would harden My soul against its torment, or would blind Those yearning glimpses of a life at rest In perfect beauty—glimpses at the best Through unpassed bars. And here, without, the wind Of scattering passion blows: and women pass Glitter-eyed down putrid alleys where the glass Of some grimed window suddenly parades— Ah, sickening heart-beat of desire!—the grace Of bare and milk-warm flesh: the vision fades, And at the pane ...

— The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems • Aldous Huxley

... a dozen labs around the nation, blocks and molds of Melody's Mix made from that first batch of milk, collapsed into piles of putrid goo. Every day thereafter, newer blocks of the mix reached the twenty-eight-day limit and similarly broke ...

— Make Mine Homogenized • Rick Raphael

... healthy, strong, hard-faced Irishmen, blown to shreds. I've helped to clear up the mess. I've trod on dead men's chests in the sand, and the ribs have bent in and the putrid gases of decay have burst through ...

— At Suvla Bay • John Hargrave

... is, perhaps, the revolting character of their food—rancid oil, a tray of hot seal entrails, a bowl of coagulated blood, for example—that causes overestimation of the quantity eaten. Persons in whom nausea and disgust are awakened at tripe, putrid game, or moldy and maggoty cheese affected by so-called epicures, not to mention the bad oysters which George I. preferred to fresh ones, would doubtless be prejudiced and incorrect observers as to the quantity of food an Eskimo might consume. From some acquaintance with the subject I therefore ...

— The First Landing on Wrangel Island - With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants • Irving C. Rosse

... mineral substances, organic matters are also removed from solution. This is conspicuously seen in the case of putrid urine, which not only loses its ammonia, but also its smell and colour, when allowed to percolate through soil; and an equally marked result was obtained with flax water, from which the organic matter ...

— Elements of Agricultural Chemistry • Thomas Anderson

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