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- v. present participle of putrefy.
Examples
“Like some kind of putrefying zombie, the left just keeps resurrecting it.”
“What happens is that fecal matter builds up in your colon, causing an unvirtuous cycle: the more fecal matter that builds up, blocking the openings of the colon, the more fecal matter gets stuck up there, putrefying for years.”
The Huffington Post: James Altucher: 12 Ways to Live Forever
“… The dead were hurled pell-mell into huge pits, hastily dug for the purpose, and putrefying bodies lay about everywhere in the houses and streets.”
“Countless more lay beneath, life ebbing and nature putrefying.”
“Their relatives, their children, their parents, their brothers and sisters and friends are buried alive in tombs of twisted and broken concrete, critically injured and screaming in pain, slowly dying from untreated infection – or worst of all, lying putrefying in the 80 degree heat in the rubble-filled streets.”
Think Progress » Chavez Attacks U.S. Efforts In Haiti: ‘They Are Occupying Haiti Undercover’
“The morgue was around the corner - a vast open parking lot of putrefying bodies, bloated and swollen and rotting, hundreds upon hundreds piled and strewn across the concrete - thrown into piles and hoisted up by their limbs into pick up trucks or by bulldozers into large dump trucks to be buried in mass graves.”
The Huffington Post: Mark Hyman, MD: Haiti: The Rubble Remains, the Wounds Still Fester
“The new incompetent management, combined with electricity rationing, led to the food putrefying as it sat in refrigerated containers.”
“Dairy cow and pig factories often dump millions of gallons of putrefying waste into massive open-air cesspits, which can leak and contaminate water used to irrigate our crops.”
“Their carcasses lie putrefying somewhere under the slushy mess.”
The Guardian: Pakistan floods: people return home to find nothing left, nothing at all
“He dropped to his hands and knees and brought his eyes to within an inch of the corpse, moving his head back and forth, up and down, peering, prodding, poking—then sniffing, the tip of his nose practically touching the putrefying flesh.”
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Halloweenie: Down in the Ground Where...
By the Pogues, on their CD "Red Roses for Me."
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On a bit of a holiday
To the land where the rivers freely flow
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