"gangrene" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡaŋˌɡɹiːn/ [UK], /ˈɡæŋˌɡɹin/ [US] Audio: En-us-gangrene.ogg Forms: gangrenes [plural]
Etymology: From French gangrène, from Latin gangraena, from Ancient Greek γάγγραινα (gángraina, “gangrene”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|gangrène}} French gangrène, {{der|en|la|gangraena}} Latin gangraena, {{der|en|grc|γάγγραινα||gangrene}} Ancient Greek γάγγραινα (gángraina, “gangrene”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} gangrene (countable and uncountable, plural gangrenes)
  1. The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the necrosis or rotting of flesh): kouevuur (Afrikaans), gangrenë [feminine] (Albanian), γάγγραινα (gángraina) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), σφάκελος (sphákelos) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), غَنْغْرِينَة (ḡanḡrīna) [feminine] (Arabic), غَرْغْرِينَا (ḡarḡrīnā) [feminine] (Arabic), գանգրենա (gangrena) (Armenian), haratustel (Basque), гангрэ́на (hanhréna) [feminine] (Belarusian), гангре́на (gangréna) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 壞疽 /坏疽 (waai⁶ zeoi¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 壞疽 /坏疽 (huàijū) (Chinese Mandarin), gangréna [feminine] (Czech), sněť [feminine] (Czech), koldbrand [common-gender] (Danish), gangræn [common-gender, neuter] (Danish), gangreen [neuter] (Dutch), koudvuur (Dutch), gangreno (Esperanto), kolubrandur [masculine] (Faroese), kuolio (Finnish), gangreeni (Finnish), gangrène [feminine] (French), განგრენა (gangrena) (Georgian), Gangrän [feminine] (German), Wundbrand (German), Brand (German), γάγγραινα (gángraina) [feminine] (Greek), कोथ (koth) (Hindi), gangréna (Hungarian), üszkösödés (Hungarian), ýldudrep [neuter] (Icelandic), átudrep [neuter] (Icelandic), brandur [masculine] (Icelandic), kolbrandur [masculine] (Icelandic), drep í holdi [neuter] (Icelandic), gangren (Indonesian), cancrena [feminine] (Italian), 壊疽 (eso) (alt: えそ) (Japanese), гангрена (gañrena) (Kazakh), ដំបៅរលួយ (dɑmbaw rɔɔrɔluəy) (Khmer), 회저 (hoejeo) (alt: 壞疽) (Korean), gangraena [feminine] (Latin), гангре́на (gangréna) [feminine] (Macedonian), kikohunga (Maori), कोथ (koth) (Marathi), үхжил (üxžil) (Mongolian), naałdzid (Navajo), iʼniiyą́ą́ʼ (Navajo), सइनको घाउले (sainko ghāule) (Nepali), koldbrann [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), gangren [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), kaldbrann [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), gangren [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), قانقاریا (qânqâriyâ) (Persian), zgorzel [feminine] (Polish), gangrena [feminine] (Polish), gangrena [feminine] (Portuguese), cangrenă [feminine] (Romanian), гангре́на (gangréna) [feminine] (Russian), гангрена [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), gangrena [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), gangréna [feminine] (Slovak), gangrena [feminine] (Slovene), gangrena [feminine] (Spanish), kallbrand [common-gender] (Swedish), gangrän [common-gender, neuter] (Swedish), ganggrena (Tagalog), འདྲུལ་བ ('drul ba) (Tibetan), kangren (Turkish), гангре́на (hanhréna) [feminine] (Ukrainian), bệnh thối hoại (Vietnamese), madredd [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. (figuratively) A damaging or corrupting influence. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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Derived forms: Fournier gangrene, gangrenate, gangrenous, gas gangrene, hospital gangrene, senile gangrene

Verb

IPA: /ˈɡaŋˌɡɹiːn/ [UK], /ˈɡæŋˌɡɹin/ [US] Audio: En-us-gangrene.ogg Forms: gangrenes [present, singular, third-person], gangrening [participle, present], gangrened [participle, past], gangrened [past]
Etymology: From French gangrène, from Latin gangraena, from Ancient Greek γάγγραινα (gángraina, “gangrene”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|gangrène}} French gangrène, {{der|en|la|gangraena}} Latin gangraena, {{der|en|grc|γάγγραινα||gangrene}} Ancient Greek γάγγραινα (gángraina, “gangrene”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} gangrene (third-person singular simple present gangrenes, present participle gangrening, simple past and past participle gangrened)
  1. (transitive) To produce gangrene in. Tags: transitive
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  2. (intransitive) To be affected with gangrene. Tags: intransitive
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  3. (transitive) To corrupt; To cause to become degenerate. Tags: transitive
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
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      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "drep í holdi"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "gangren"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cancrena"
    },
    {
      "alt": "えそ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "eso",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "壊疽"
    },
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      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "gañrena",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "гангрена"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "dɑmbaw rɔɔrɔluəy",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "ដំបៅរលួយ"
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      "alt": "壞疽",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hoejeo",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "회저"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "gangraena"
    },
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "gangréna",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "гангре́на"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "kikohunga"
    },
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      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "koth",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "कोथ"
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      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "üxžil",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "үхжил"
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      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "naałdzid"
    },
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      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "iʼniiyą́ą́ʼ"
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      "code": "ne",
      "lang": "Nepali",
      "roman": "sainko ghāule",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "सइनको घाउले"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
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      "word": "koldbrann"
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
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      "word": "kaldbrann"
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      "code": "nn",
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "qânqâriyâ",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "قانقاریا"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "zgorzel"
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      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "gangrena"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cangrenă"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gangréna",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гангре́на"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "гангрена"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
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      "word": "gangrena"
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      "code": "sk",
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      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
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      "word": "gangréna"
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      "code": "sl",
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      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "gangrena"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "gangrena"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
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      "word": "kallbrand"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
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      "word": "gangrän"
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "ganggrena"
    },
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      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "'drul ba",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "འདྲུལ་བ"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "kangren"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hanhréna",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гангре́на"
    },
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "word": "bệnh thối hoại"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "the necrosis or rotting of flesh",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "madredd"
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          "text": "Vulneration or section sometimes procures a Gangrene, when the vital Principle is so debilitated, or enormous by the would, that instead of a good suppuration and vigorous transmutation, a depraved matter is generated, which corrupts and gangrenes the part: and thus a small cut of a finger or Toe hath gangrened, and killed the person: but in greater Wounds, the danger is greater, as more frequently to happen.",
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          "text": "An intensely biting frost will gangrene the membrane ; a foggy state of the atmosphere, with low, black, stagnant exhalations, accompanied with sudden, frequent intermissions, interchanges, and oscillations of dryness and moisture, expansion and condensation, will corrupt and putrify both the membrane and the mucous discharge.",
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          "text": "For where it chances to be successful, it is like the copper shot of the Mexicans, which gangrenes the wound.",
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          "text": "If a man had a sore leg, and he should go to an honest, judicious chirurgeon, and he should only bid him keep it warm, and anoint it with such an oil, (an oil well known) that would do the cure; haply he would not much regard him, because he knows the medicine, beforehand an ordinary medicine; but if he should go to a surgeon that should tell him, your leg will gangrene within three days, and it must be cut off, and you will die, unless you do something that I could tell you, what listening there would be to this man?",
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          "text": "The leg will gangrene if the superficial femoral vessels be torn.",
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          "text": "If not, the toe will gangrene and fall off.",
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          "text": "That is true,” replied Almira, “nothing can be performed without labor, and where there is labor there will be discontent, and where there is no labor there will be heart-burning and jealousy about insignificant trifles, such as gangrenes the real pleasures of contemplation within these walls; walls, which would otherwise hold out an asylum, much to be prized by those who have been unfortunate, who have lost all their friends, or who are weary of the world.\"",
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          "ref": "1889 July, John Miller, “The Abuse of Marriage”, in The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly, volume 2, number 12, page 902:",
          "text": "The Stuart Restoration period was a necessary sequence of the Puritan period, and there is a similar cause for the sensualism that gangrenes the heart of our morbidly prudish Society of to-day.",
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          "ref": "1930, P.R. Stephensen, The Legend of Aleister Crowley: A Study of the Facts:",
          "text": "The same delusion will gangrene England within the lifetime of most men of military age unless she will realize that gold is dross ; that her poets, her artists, and her scholars are her very soul.",
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