putrefactive
Example Sentences
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This makes food acidic and prevents the growth of putrefactive and pathogenic bacteria.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2023
The conquerors of those otherwise triumphant Martians were, he reported, "the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared."
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2021
What is commonly called "ptomaine poisoning" is poisoning from foods which contain putrefactive bacteria.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other characters were marvels not just of makeup but also of comic sympathy; Sherman Klump and his pudgy, putrefactive family had humor and heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cases of recent occurrence have fearfully exemplified the fact—previously well enough established—of the dependence of Asiatic Cholera, in common with Typhus and other pestilences, on the inhalation of the gaseous products of putrefactive decomposition.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
