Thesaurus / putrescent
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synonyms for putrescent
- contaminated
- disagreeable
- fetid
- moldy
- musty
- polluted
- putrid
- smelly
- soured
- stale
- tainted
- bad
- carious
- curdled
- decomposing
- disgusting
- evil-smelling
- feculent
- foul
- frowzy
- fusty
- gamy
- high
- impure
- loathsome
- malodorous
- nasty
- nidorous
- noisome
- noxious
- off
- offensive
- olid
- putrefactive
- rank
- reeky
- repulsive
- sharp
- sour
- stinking
- strong
- turned
- unhealthy
- whiffy
- noxious
- putrid
- musty
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- offensive
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- revolting
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- sour
- tainted
- stale
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- dank
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- fetid
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- gamy
- humid
- loathsome
- mephitic
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- obnoxious
- pungent
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- crumbled
- decomposed
- decomposing
- disintegrated
- disintegrating
- fecal
- feculent
- festering
- infected
- perished
- polluted
- purulent
- pustular
- putrified
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- bedraggled
- black
- common
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- decayed
- defiled
- dusty
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- grimy
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- putrid
- rancid
- rank
- rotten
- sloppy
- slovenly
- sooty
- sordid
- spotted
- squalid
- stable
- stale
- stinking
- tainted
- unhealthful
- vile
- soiled
- befouled
- besmirched
- blurred
- contaminated
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- feculent
- polluted
- profaned
- smeared
- stained
- sullied
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- distorted
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- falsified
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- noxious
- putrid
- polluted
- infected
- contaminated
- withered
- addled
- ruined
- rank
- wasted
- spoiled
- bad
- carrion
- effete
- putrid
- perished
- decomposed
- riddled
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- rotted
- carious
- gangrenous
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How to use putrescent in a sentence
An impossible scheme of reconstruction was trailing its slow, putrescent length along.
MARSE HENRY (VOL. 2)HENRY WATTERSONI have twice given water saturated with fixed air in a fever of the putrescent kind, and it agreed very well with the patients.
EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON DIFFERENT KINDS OF AIRJOSEPH PRIESTLEYAnd off what are those two ravens rising, stirring up with their obscene wings a sickly, putrescent odour?
PROSE IDYLLSCHARLES KINGSLEYPyrolignous acid possesses, in a very eminent degree, anti-putrescent properties.
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINESANDREW UREMany are very large and ponderous; fleshy and putrescent, decaying soon after maturity.
THE MUSHROOM, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISEM. E. HARDTen hours more elapsed and, without change of circumstances, another drop was taken from the now palpably putrescent fluid.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, VOL. XIX, NO. 470, JAN. 3, 1885VARIOUSThe presence of putrefiable or putrescent matter determines at once the germination of the always-present spore.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, VOL. XIX, NO. 470, JAN. 3, 1885VARIOUSThey proved to be the lancet which cut the putrescent sore of the rising world.
THE INSECTJULES MICHELETBut from the putrescent mass of flesh, we salvaged a second jewel from Aptor.
THE JEWELS OF APTORSAMUEL R. DELANYThe putrescent are composed of decayed, or decaying, vegetable and animal substances.
SOIL CULTUREJ. H. WALDENSYNONYM OF THE DAY
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WORDS RELATED TO PUTRESCENT
- bad
- carious
- contaminated
- curdled
- decomposing
- disagreeable
- disgusting
- evil-smelling
- feculent
- fetid
- foul
- frowzy
- fusty
- gamy
- high
- impure
- loathsome
- malodorous
- moldy
- musty
- nasty
- nidorous
- noisome
- noxious
- off
- offensive
- olid
- polluted
- putrefactive
- putrescent
- putrid
- rank
- reeky
- repulsive
- sharp
- smelly
- sour
- soured
- stale
- stinking
- strong
- tainted
- turned
- unhealthy
- whiffy
- bad
- dank
- disagreeable
- disgusting
- evil-smelling
- feculent
- fetid
- funky
- fusty
- gamy
- graveolent
- gross
- high
- humid
- loathsome
- mephitic
- moldy
- musty
- nasty
- nauseating
- noisome
- noxious
- obnoxious
- off
- offensive
- olid
- pungent
- putrescent
- putrid
- rancid
- reeking
- repulsive
- revolting
- smelly
- sour
- stale
- strong
- strong-smelling
- tainted
- turned
- bad
- bad-smelling
- corroded
- corrupt
- crumbled
- crumbling
- decomposed
- decomposing
- disgusting
- disintegrated
- disintegrating
- fecal
- feculent
- festering
- fetid
- foul
- gross
- infected
- loathsome
- loud
- mephitic
- moldy
- noisome
- noxious
- offensive
- overripe
- perished
- polluted
- purulent
- pustular
- putrescent
- putrid
- putrified
- rancid
- rank
- rotting
- smelling
- sour
- spoiled
- stale
- stinking
- strong
- tainted
- touched
- unsound
- bedraggled
- befouled
- besmirched
- black
- blurred
- common
- contaminated
- corrupt
- decayed
- defiled
- desecrated
- dusty
- evil
- feculent
- fetid
- filthy
- foul
- grimy
- impure
- messy
- muddy
- nasty
- polluted
- profaned
- putrescent
- putrid
- rancid
- rank
- rotten
- sloppy
- slovenly
- smeared
- soiled
- sooty
- sordid
- spotted
- squalid
- stable
- stained
- stale
- stinking
- sullied
- tainted
- tarnished
- unhealthful
- vile
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