"gangrenize" meaning in All languages combined

See gangrenize on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: gangrenizes [present, singular, third-person], gangrenizing [participle, present], gangrenized [participle, past], gangrenized [past]
Etymology: gangrene + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|gangrene|ize}} gangrene + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} gangrenize (third-person singular simple present gangrenizes, present participle gangrenizing, simple past and past participle gangrenized)
  1. To cause or to develop gangrene.
    Sense id: en-gangrenize-en-verb-D9GHmc89 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 53 47
  2. (figurative) To corrupt or cause to degenerate. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-gangrenize-en-verb-zwfvrK3n Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 53 47

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for gangrenize meaning in All languages combined (3.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gangrene",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "gangrene + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "gangrene + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gangrenizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gangrenizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gangrenized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gangrenized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gangrenize (third-person singular simple present gangrenizes, present participle gangrenizing, simple past and past participle gangrenized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1864, John Simon, Transactions of the Vermont Medical Society, page 30",
          "text": "Whoever knows what changes occur in an element of the body separated from the rest , and kept macerating at temperatures of F . 60° – 100° , can predict what changes the same element would undergo if gangrenized in connection with the body.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Jean de Vigo, Le mal français, 1514, page 71",
          "text": "And that resulted, as we know, in frightful stomatitis which gangrenized the gums, which disturbed, lay bare the teeth and often made them fall out, which sometimes extended to their base, to necrosis of parts of the maxillas, and which in all cases imposed on the unfortunate patients a long and horrible suffering.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, F. David Hoeniger, Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance, page 285",
          "text": "Yet several times after he seemed to be near success, \"upon a sodaine ... his sores did putrifye and breake foorth again ... so that I feared his Vlcers would gangrenize.\" After over a year both surgeon and patient wearied and gave up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause or to develop gangrene."
      ],
      "id": "en-gangrenize-en-verb-D9GHmc89",
      "links": [
        [
          "gangrene",
          "gangrene"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Herbert Vivian, The Life of the Emperor Charles of Austria, page 149",
          "text": "Perhaps the worst imbecility of the Junkers was their policy towards gangrenized Russia .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Thomas Kush, Wyndham Lewis's pictorial integer, page 106",
          "text": "A painting by Severini (of Scaramouche with a guitar and two masked pals) hangs near a cubist rendering of the Woolworth Building in New York, and a post-pre-Raphaelite landscape by a period-fancying Gloucestershire Hebrew, to point the gangrenizing of the time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Todd Shepard, Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979, page 234",
          "text": "Many early-1970s leftist evocations of sexual violence instead developed claims made by left-wing critics of France's violent campaign to crush the Algerian revolution, who had warned that the security forces' systematic use of torture and extreme violence, notably rape, would “gangrenize” the French.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To corrupt or cause to degenerate."
      ],
      "id": "en-gangrenize-en-verb-zwfvrK3n",
      "links": [
        [
          "corrupt",
          "corrupt"
        ],
        [
          "degenerate",
          "degenerate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To corrupt or cause to degenerate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gangrenize"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ize",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gangrene",
        "3": "ize"
      },
      "expansion": "gangrene + -ize",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "gangrene + -ize",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gangrenizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gangrenizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gangrenized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gangrenized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gangrenize (third-person singular simple present gangrenizes, present participle gangrenizing, simple past and past participle gangrenized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1864, John Simon, Transactions of the Vermont Medical Society, page 30",
          "text": "Whoever knows what changes occur in an element of the body separated from the rest , and kept macerating at temperatures of F . 60° – 100° , can predict what changes the same element would undergo if gangrenized in connection with the body.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Jean de Vigo, Le mal français, 1514, page 71",
          "text": "And that resulted, as we know, in frightful stomatitis which gangrenized the gums, which disturbed, lay bare the teeth and often made them fall out, which sometimes extended to their base, to necrosis of parts of the maxillas, and which in all cases imposed on the unfortunate patients a long and horrible suffering.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, F. David Hoeniger, Medicine and Shakespeare in the English Renaissance, page 285",
          "text": "Yet several times after he seemed to be near success, \"upon a sodaine ... his sores did putrifye and breake foorth again ... so that I feared his Vlcers would gangrenize.\" After over a year both surgeon and patient wearied and gave up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cause or to develop gangrene."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gangrene",
          "gangrene"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1932, Herbert Vivian, The Life of the Emperor Charles of Austria, page 149",
          "text": "Perhaps the worst imbecility of the Junkers was their policy towards gangrenized Russia .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Thomas Kush, Wyndham Lewis's pictorial integer, page 106",
          "text": "A painting by Severini (of Scaramouche with a guitar and two masked pals) hangs near a cubist rendering of the Woolworth Building in New York, and a post-pre-Raphaelite landscape by a period-fancying Gloucestershire Hebrew, to point the gangrenizing of the time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Todd Shepard, Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979, page 234",
          "text": "Many early-1970s leftist evocations of sexual violence instead developed claims made by left-wing critics of France's violent campaign to crush the Algerian revolution, who had warned that the security forces' systematic use of torture and extreme violence, notably rape, would “gangrenize” the French.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To corrupt or cause to degenerate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "corrupt",
          "corrupt"
        ],
        [
          "degenerate",
          "degenerate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) To corrupt or cause to degenerate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gangrenize"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (372f256 and 664a3bc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.