gangrene
IPA: gˈængrin
noun
- The necrosis or rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.
- (figuratively) A damaging or corrupting influence.
verb
- (transitive) To produce gangrene in.
- (intransitive) To be affected with gangrene.
- (transitive) To corrupt; To cause to become degenerate.
Examples of "gangrene" in Sentences
- The gangrene is very high up in my leg and the open thigh wound wasn't getting better.
- Dr. Rabinowitch examined him and his foot was black with gangrene from the ankle down.
- Nobody will starve, get dysentery, get gangrene from a minor wound, or die of battle exhaustion.
- I agree with you that I don't go out of my way to find organic, "natural," (gangrene is natural, right?) or biodynamic wines.
- The etymology of gangrene derives from the Latin word "gangraena" and from the Greek gangraina, which means "putrefaction of tissues".
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,