gangrene
noun
necrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
gangrened
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past participleof gangrene.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof gangrene.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
gangrenenounnecrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
Example Sentences
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One man came limping in, unassisted, on a gangrened leg teeming with worms.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
But all are the same in one point, the mildewed, cankered, gangrened aspect, contrasting so unfavourably with the whitewashed port-towns of the Arabs.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
No surgeon could be procured at the time, and the wound appears to have gangrened and to have infected the whole arm.
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Alexander Huth
Then in the midst of the discussion the King had a twinge in his gangrened knee, and signed Forstner's release, in order to be rid of this pertinacious princess.
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay
Here we see both what he calls his "gangrened sensibility" and a complete abandonment to the feelings of the moment.
From Poems of Coleridge by Arthur Symons
