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  • verb Present participle of putrefy.

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Examples

  • Like some kind of putrefying zombie, the left just keeps resurrecting it.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Dr. Sanity 2009

  • Like some kind of putrefying zombie, the left just keeps resurrecting it.

    THIS TIME, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE...LET THE ZOMBIES TAKE OVER MEDICINE Dr. Sanity 2009

  • … 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.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • … 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.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • 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’ 2010

  • … 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.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • 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.

    James Altucher: 12 Ways to Live Forever James Altucher 2010

  • Countless more lay beneath, life ebbing and nature putrefying.

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • … 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.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • Countless more lay beneath, life ebbing and nature putrefying.

    Like Hell Needs A Heat Wave... 2010

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