All 3 Uses of
putrid
in
The War of the Worlds
- —slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.†
Chpt 2.8
- But by virtue of this natural selection of our kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a struggle, and to many—those that cause putrefaction in dead matter, for instance—our living frames are altogether immune.†
Chpt 2.8putrefaction = rotting (the process of biological decay)
- 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.†
Chpt 2.10 *
Definition:
rotting (an advanced state of decomposition) with a foul odor; or anything that is disgusting