Gangrene

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Death and decay of body tissue, often occurring in a limb, caused by insufficient blood supply and usually following injury or disease.
  • v. To affect or become affected with gangrene.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The necrosis or rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.
  • n. A damaging or corrupting influence.
  • v. To produce gangrene in.
  • v. To be affected with gangrene.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • v. To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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).
  • n. In botany, a disease ending in putrid decay.
  • To produce a gangrene in; mortify; hence, figuratively, to cause decay or destruction in.
  • To become mortified.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
  • n. the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
  • v. undergo necrosis
    • Verb Form
    gangrened    gangrenes    gangrening   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    waste    rot   
    Form
    gangrened    gangrening   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    death    necrobiosis    mortification    necrosis    die   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    imposthume    tubercle    carbuncle    dysentery    fibrosis   
     
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