Dead and Putrid

Dead

Dead adjective - No longer living.

Putrid and dead are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Putrid" instead an adjective "Dead".

Nearby Word: deadly

Putrid

Putrid adjective - Having undergone organic breakdown.

Dead and putrid are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dead" instead an adjective "Putrid".

Nearby Words: putridity, putridly

Both words in one sentence

  • Evil Smells Bad Graboids in the Tremors films are known for giving off a putrid stench, living or dead.
  • Waking Up at the Morgue To really seal the deal, they make him up to look obviously putrid (and rub a dead cat on him for the stink) and have the "widow" claim he died of something nice and contagious...
  • Film / Four Rooms There's the putrid rotting corpse of a dead whore inside the mattress.
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