Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Death and decay of body tissue, often occurring in a limb, caused by insufficient blood supply and usually following injury or disease.
- transitive & intransitive verb To affect or become affected with gangrene.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To produce a gangrene in; mortify; hence, figuratively, to cause decay or destruction in.
- To become mortified.
- noun In pathology, a necrosis or mortification of soft tissues when the parts affected become dry, hard, and dark in color (dry gangrene or mummification), or when, remaining soft and moist, the parts fall a prey to septic organisms and undergo putrefaction (moist gangrene or sphacelus).
- noun In botany, a disease ending in putrid decay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.
- verb To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
necrosis orrotting offlesh , usually caused by lack of blood supply. - noun figuratively A damaging or corrupting influence.
- verb transitive To produce gangrene in.
- verb intransitive To be affected with gangrene.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- noun the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
- verb undergo necrosis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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Nobody will starve, get dysentery, get gangrene from a minor wound, or die of battle exhaustion.
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Nobody will starve, get dysentery, get gangrene from a minor wound, or die of battle exhaustion.
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Nobody will starve, get dysentery, get gangrene from a minor wound, or die of battle exhaustion.
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I agree with you that I don't go out of my way to find organic, "natural," (gangrene is natural, right?) or biodynamic wines.
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The gangrene is very high up in my leg and the open thigh wound wasn't getting better.
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Dr. Rabinowitch examined him and his foot was black with gangrene from the ankle down.
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The etymology of gangrene derives from the Latin word "gangraena" and from the Greek gangraina, which means "putrefaction of tissues".
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Because this being all our hope, against this point did the devil make a vehement stand, and at one time he was wholly subverting it, at another his word was that it was "past already;" which also Paul writing to Timothy called a gangrene, I mean, this wicked doctrine, and those that brought it in he branded, saying,
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
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In his opinion the true cause of the alteration of the cauliflower is the humid gangrene, that is to say, a gummy degeneration and putrid fermentation of the tissues, caused by the abundance of manure in the soil and the excess of water in the plant at a time when it is subject to sudden changes of temperature.
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These effects are not merely negative: though it would be much, merely to check the farther progress of a gangrene, which is eating out the very vital principles of our social and political existence.
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