Sample Sentences for
putrid
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    There was a new smell too, something putrid, like nothing I had ever smelled before.  (source)
    putrid = disgusting or rotten
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    "I expect they've let it rot to give it a stronger flavor," said Hermione knowledgeably, pinching her nose and leaning closer to look at the putrid haggis.  (source)
    putrid = disgusting (perhaps rotting and with a bad odor)
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    Tally had never seen so much space painted in such putrid colors, as if the building were designed to make its occupants vaguely nauseated.  (source)
    putrid = disgusting
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    She was so close I caught a whiff of her putrid body odor.  (source)
    putrid = disgusting
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    Then they smelled the odor, a garbage stench of putrefaction and decay that drifted up the hillside toward them.  (source)
    putrefaction = rotting (the process of biological decay)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    the damp, putrefying pallets stuck to the mud floor at the Constantinople lazar-house, where the patients were hauled up from their beds with hooks;†  (source)
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    Four years of half-starvation, four years of rations which were coarse or green or half-putrefied, had done its work with them and every soldier who stopped at Tara was either just recovering or was actively suffering from it.†  (source)
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    Then Roger noticed that, although the pond looked lovely, there was a faint but definite odor of putridity hanging around it ...and the small house on the rock in the center of the pond was whitewashed not with paint but with gullshit.†  (source)
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    'And how splendid it will smell too, when it begins to putrefy,' added Ernest.†  (source)
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    That they did not bury any of their dead, and the reckless slaughter they perpetrated, point also to an entire ignorance of the putrefactive process.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    The putridness would come out; the gangrene.  (source)
    putridness = advanced state of decomposition with a foul odor
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He was a valet to a preacher, expected no promotions or medals, bore no arms, and had a meek faith in a loving Jesus which most soldiers found putrid.  (source)
    putrid = disgusting
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    ...it all pretended to be meaningful and joyful and beautiful, and it all was just concealed putrefaction.  (source)
    putrefaction = things rotten or disgusting
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