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English
Pronunciation
Noun
putrescence (countable and uncountable, plural putrescences)
- The condition of being putrid; decay
- Putrid matter
- 1791, Presbyterio-Catholicon:
- Hot, and precipitate, and zealous, as has been the assiduity, with which the public eye is blinkled by this glittering putrescence of rotten policy, and the public ear is deaffened by a vapid and senseless jargon of political bombast,
French
Pronunciation
Noun
putrescence f (plural putrescences)
- putrescence
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