putrefactive

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putrefactive

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Of, pertaining to, or causing putrefaction. And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid Handling Machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; […]

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adj pertaining to or causing putrefaction

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@misc{putrefactive_2026,
  title = {putrefactive},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/putrefactive},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}