putrefaction

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Decomposition of organic matter, especially protein, by microorganisms, resulting in production of foul-smelling matter.

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An amount of putrefied matter or an odor produced by such matter.

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The act or process of putrefying; the decomposition of animal and vegetable substances, attended by the evolution of fetid gases.

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Putrefied matter.

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The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.

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The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied.

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the act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products

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rotted material

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the state of being rotted

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moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles