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English to English noun
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a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor |  | source: wordnet30
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(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action |  | source: wordnet30
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moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles |  | Example: the luxury and corruption among the upper classes moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity Rome had fallen into moral putrefaction
source: wordnet30
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The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter. |  | source: webster1913
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