Gangrene
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English
Noun
Gangrene (countable and uncountable; plural Gangrenes)- The necrosis or rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.
- If gangrene sets in, we may have to amputate the foot.
- (figuratively) A damaging or corrupting influence.
- 1960, Cora Vreede-de Stuers, The Indonesian woman: struggles and achievements
- Women should earn equal wages with men for equal work done. Child marriages and polygamy are a gangrene on society.
- 1960, Cora Vreede-de Stuers, The Indonesian woman: struggles and achievements
Verbs for Gangrene
affect with—; cure—; decompose with—; defile with—; heal—; infect with—; lop off —; occasion—; result in—; seize with—; treat for—; —begins; —corrupts; —endangers; —pains; —oozes; —sets in; —spreads.
Thesaurus
break up, canker, caries, carrion, corrupt, corruption, crumble, crumble into dust, dandruff, decay, decompose, decomposition, disintegrate, dry gangrene, dry rot, excrement, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fester, filth, foul matter, foulness, furfur, gas gangrene, go bad, go to pieces, mess, mildew, moist gangrene, mold, molder, mortification, mortify, muck, mucus, necrose, necrosis, necrotic tissue, noma, obscenity, ordure, pus, putrefaction, putrefy, putresce, putrescence, putrid matter, putridity, putridness, rancidity, rancidness, rankle, rankness, rot, rottenness, scurf, scuz, slime, slough, smut, snot, sordes, sphacelate, sphacelation, sphacelus, spoil, spoilage, suppurate, tooth decay
Etymology
From Latin gangraena (“gangrene”), from γάγγραινα (gaggraina, “gangrene”), from γραίνειν (grainein, “gnaw”).
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Italian
Noun
gangrene f.
- Plural form of gangrena.
