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What does putrefying mean?

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  1. present participle of putrefy
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Part of the protein which escapes digestion will reach the colon, where it acts as the substrate for putrefying bacteria.
Below the military courtyard there is a reservoir, the walls of which have retained a reddish plaster used to stop the water putrefying.
They feed until the body is reduced to a putrefying mass, and then pupate within the shell.
Scattered along the road from the capital were enough putrefying corpses to equip a west African military band.
And putrefying matter washed out due to rains will meet this filtering material and stay there allowing only water to pass through.
This protracted process resulted in a backlog of bodies that were often putrefying by the time they were cremated.

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