Putrification

Until today I had no idea that “putrification” was considered profane or indecent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Power generation continues for up to 48 hours following cardio-pulmonary shut-down, and auto-deployed embalming sachets delay the corpse/shelter's putrification until well after her owner's rescue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This moral putrification cascades from its captains all the way down to the working level of this evil business. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sad to say, Geyer did not catch the killer before he took the lives of the children, but Geyer does describe his nausea at discovering their bodies -- not because of the crushing sadness of their horrifying murders or his own failure to save them (and there is nothing remotely touching these points to be found between the covers of this awful book), but because of their state of putrification, carefully described. ❋ Unknown (2005)

While Alucius had hoped to return the bodies to Emal or Dekhron, the heat and the overly rapid putrification had made burial necessary as soon as they had cleared the mountains and reached an area where there was actually soil. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2003)

As I thought I made clear to you, there is no sign of any such putrification near any of the homes of the victims. ❋ PATRICIA CABOT (2001)

The half-rotted carcasses of beached fish, washed into the tunnel from a high tide swollen by storm rains, shimmered with the strange, evil light of putrification. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (1988)

Page 26 thus, "We do not see the end here! oh no, my friends! there will be a putrification of this body!" the context failing to indicate whether he meant purification or putrefaction, and leaving it doubtful if he attached any definite meaning to the word himself. ❋ Unknown (1856)

In a newspaper article written from prison, the peer described the "putrification of the US justice system". ❋ Unknown (2010)

"When we opened the tomb, I poked my head in and there was still, to my astonishment, a smell of putrification and a chill that went to my bones," Houston said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You must have a strong constitution to be able to listen to newtie boy's putrification. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sailer: I don't think Biff (in "The Rainmaker") or Jimmy (in "The 1940s Radio Hour") knew words like "putrification." ❋ Unknown (2010)