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Meaning of putrefaction


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  putrefaction
      n 1: a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
           [syn: {putrefaction}, {rot}]
      2: (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal
         action [syn: {decomposition}, {rot}, {rotting},
         {putrefaction}]
      3: moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles;
         "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral
         degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its
         brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity"; "Rome had fallen
         into moral putrefaction" [syn: {corruption}, {degeneracy},
         {depravation}, {depravity}, {putrefaction}]


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