putrified

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Only instead of feeling nausea from watching a man drown in a tub of putrified pig guts, you're bawling your eyes out because someone's dad has just keeled over with stomach cancer.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2010

He lamented that her voice had evaporated, but noted that "it has fled this impure, debasing, putrified air which was going to smother it, petrify it, degrade it!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Reinforcing this vision of inferno are his colors: stark blacks, whites, umbers, reds, yellows, and ghastly phosphorescent greens of putrified corpses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Transfixed with astonishment, she cries: "I am putrified!"

From Time Magazine Archive

About thirteen moneths after his return to his own Countrey, on a sudden the ingrafted nose grew cold, putrified, and within few days drops off.

From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William