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putrid
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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- Every time he described them he'd toss in some lurid new detail: they stank like putrefying trash; they were invisible except for their shadows; a pack of squirming tentacles lurked inside their mouths and could whip out in an instant and pull you into their powerful jaws.†
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- It stooped there, hairless and naked, mottled gray-black skin hanging off its frame in loose folds, its eyes collared in dripping putrefaction, legs bowed and feet clubbed and hands gnarled into useless claws—every part looking withered and wasted like the body of an impossibly old man—save one.†
p. 298.7putrefaction = rotting (the process of biological decay)
Definitions:
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(1)
(putrid) rotting (an advanced state of decomposition) with a foul odor; or anything that is disgusting
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)