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
Transfixed with astonishment, she cries: "I am putrified!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Mountain Man Moses Harris tells of his trip through a "putrified" forest where the grass snaps "like pipe stems."
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
But this is more strange, that part of such flesh as they caried with them out of England, which putrified there, became sweete againe at their returne to the clime of temperate regions.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Richard Hakluyt
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