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

Now his condemnation damns the sales of any comestible as if it were visibly putrified; his praise is an advertisement beyond price.

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

He kept a rough terrier-dog, that would kill anything in the country, and exhibited three rows of putrified rats, nailed at the back of the stable, as evidences of the prowess of his dog.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841 by Various