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Textual thesaurus for "putrefaction"

(noun) degeneracy, depravation, depravity, corruption

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

the luxury and corruption among the upper classes; moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration; its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity; Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction


(noun) decomposition, rot, rotting

(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action


(noun) rot

a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor