putrified

• His mistress dead—dead of the small-pox—disfigured beyond expression—a loathsome mass of putrified (sic) matter—and the surgeon separating the head from the body, because the coffin had been made too short! —  Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
• At a morgue in the Florida Keys, they lie on stretchers stacked like bunk beds, their bodies chewed by sharks, their faces too putrified to be recognized. —  Hispanic Business Magazine
• His mistress dead--dead of the small-pox--disfigured beyond expression--a loathsome mass of putrified (sic) matter--and the surgeon separating the head from the body, because the coffin had been made too short! —  Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, ;c.; in Different Parts of Europe
• The flesh of some of them where they were flogged putrified, and came off, in some cases, six or eight inches in diameter, and in places half an inch thick This was in 1839, a time when Americans were very sure that for civilization, progress, humanity, and the Christian virtues, they were at least on as high a plane as the most exalted peoples of the earth Infectious disease was one of the grave perils with which the slavers had to reckon. —  American Merchant Ships and Sailors
• The frightened miller was "putrified," as Mrs. Malaprop would say, at the sight, and a push from the white spectre brought the unfortunate man to the ground, when away rode the gallant quartermaster with his sacks of flour, which, at length bursting, made a ludicrous spectacle of man and horse On reaching the English camp, where Lord Wellington was anxiously deploring his fate, a sudden shout from the soldiers made his lordship turn round, when a figure, resembling the statue in "Don Juan," galloped up to him. —  The Bed-Book of Happiness

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