Usually means: Decomposition of body tissue postmortem.
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  1. putrefaction: Merriam-Webster
  2. putrefaction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. putrefaction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. putrefaction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. putrefaction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Putrefaction, putrefaction: Wordnik
  7. putrefaction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. putrefaction: Wiktionary
  9. putrefaction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. putrefaction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. putrefaction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. putrefaction: Dictionary.com
  13. putrefaction: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Putrefaction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Putrefaction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. putrefaction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. putrefaction: Rhymezone
  18. Putrefaction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. putrefaction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. putrefaction: FreeDictionary.org
  21. putrefaction: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. putrefaction: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. putrefaction: Legal dictionary
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  1. putrefaction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. putrefaction: Medical dictionary

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  2. putrefaction: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology

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  1. putrefaction: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The act of causing to rot; the anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of malodorous, incompletely oxidized products.
noun:  Rotten material.
noun:  The state of being rotten.

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