putrefaction
- n a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
- n (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- n moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
- To day both Shanghais are deadand within the putrefaction of its mist-shrouded cadaver the maggots of destruction worm silently about.
- Pustules of corruption sear your senses and you search in vain for some escape from the smothering putrefaction.
- Until he was strangling and mutilating his victims, displaying their lopped-off heads in his apartment and sleeping with their corpses until putrefaction made it unbearable.