gangrene
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French gangrène, from Latin gangraena, from Ancient Greek γάγγραινα (gángraina, “gangrene”).
Inflected forms:
form: gangrenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gangrenes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gangrening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gangrened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gangrened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If gangrene sets in, we may have to amputate the foot.
gloss: A damaging or corrupting influence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Women should earn equal wages with men for equal work done. Child marriages and polygamy are a gangrene on society.
gloss: To produce gangrene in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
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.
For where it chances to be successful, it is like the copper shot of the Mexicans, which gangrenes the wound.
gloss: To be affected with gangrene.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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?
The leg will gangrene if the superficial femoral vessels be torn.
If not, the toe will gangrene and fall off.
gloss: To corrupt; To cause to become degenerate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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."
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.
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.
Derived words: Fournier gangrene
gangrenate
gangrenescent
gangrenize
gangrenous
gas gangrene
hospital gangrene
senile gangrene
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