'putrefaction' is a correct and usable word in written English.
Putrefaction refers to the process of decaying matter, or rotting, so it can be used to describe how something smells or looks when it decays. For example, "The smell of putrefaction was overwhelming as we walked past the old, abandoned building."
The putrefaction of fan communities is something artists rarely acknowledge, and reining in grotesque fanbases is another type of control artists should exert in 2014.
A chemistry teacher in the final stages of moral putrefaction, a CIA agent with bipolar disorder and the late Władziu Valentino Liberace combined to thwart British hopes of dominating the Emmy awards.
But is the putrefaction really worsening or are more people just noticing the smell?Many think it is a bit of both.
GOING barefoot in Africa often means injuries, worms puncturing the skin and putrefaction of the foot from disease.
Here were gore-spattered battles and scenes of putrefaction and disease.
Cargo bays were poorly ventilated and baked under the equatorial sun, leading to festering and putrefaction.
The older surgeons cried "back to Lister," but antiseptics, no matter how strong, were no match for putrefaction and gangrene.
The sacs are speedily extracted from the bodies and are dried to prevent putrefaction.
In the mid-19th century Pasteur showed that fermentation and putrefaction are caused by organisms in the air; in the 1860s Lister revolutionized surgical practice by utilizing carbolic acid (phenol) to exclude atmospheric germs and thus prevent putrefaction in compound fractures of bones; and in the 1880s Koch identified the organisms that cause tuberculosis and cholera.
Commercial concerns have entered the scene: nonpayment of maintenance charges may result in threats of thawing and putrefaction.
