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What does putrescence mean?

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Noun
  1. The condition of being putrid; decay
  2. Putrid matter
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Most episodes have a line or two that will just crack you up because of their putrescence.
A general scavenger, the Burying-beetle refuses no sort of cadaveric putrescence.
Where there is danger of putrescence, add a small quantity of powdered charcoal.
Altogether these produced a breakdown in the cellular structure of the body, evident in the putrescence of the flesh and bones of sufferers.
Afterward, they go to the adjacent market to buy oil and herbs to prepare a balm to anoint a body in putrescence.
Paradoxically, the physical body from which the putrescence comes scarcely seems to touch the earth with its weight.

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