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

I fall sick of sin, and am bedded and bedrid, buried and putrified in the practice of sin, and all this while have no presage, no pulse, no sense of my sickness.

From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John