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  • verb Present participle of gangrene.

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Examples

  • It drags upon me like a prisoner's gangrening fetter, and I'm getting tired of it.

    To-morrow? Victoria Cross 1910

  • My earnest wish is that balm may be poured into all the wounds which have been given, to prevent them from gangrening, and to avoid those fatal consequences which the community may sustain if it is withheld.

    Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903

  • We must, then, proceed on a true principle in trying to remedy the profligacy that disgraces so many of our crowded centres, and the demoralization that is fast gangrening even our rural districts.

    Public School Education Michael M��ller 1862

  • My earnest wish is that balm may be poured into all the wounds which have been given, to prevent them from gangrening, and to avoid those fatal consequences which the community may sustain if it is withheld.

    Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched John Frederick Schroeder 1852

  • My earnest wish is that balm may be poured into _all_ the wounds which have been given, to prevent them from gangrening, and to avoid those fatal consequences which the community may sustain if it is withheld.

    The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States John Marshall 1795

  • We, therefore, call on the OIC and the Commission to address this gangrening "Rushdie Syndrome", otherwise the world will be led astray into believing that all the OIC countries approve of this arbitrary death sentence on British writer Salman Rushdie, to be carried out by any Muslim or non-Muslim, with a bounty of: $3 million.

    Jihad Watch 2009

  • My earnest wish is that balsam may be poured into all the wounds which have been given, to prevent them from gangrening, and from those fatal consequences which the community may sustain if it is withheld. "

    Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852

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