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Meaning of Putrescence | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. The condition of being putrid; decay
    countable, uncountable
  2. Putrid matter
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية التعفّن
Français putrescence

Examples

“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, …”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

Putrescences putrescene Putrescent putrescible putrescin putrescine

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