Gangrened
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Gangrened is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of gangrene.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of gangrene.
More Meanings
- Infected with gangrene; gangrenous.
- Corrupt; degenerate.
Example Sentences
How different a representation is this from the prejudice and passion of Gangræna Edwards himself, more gangrened than any of his unhappy sectaries.
To give the Commission a list of gangrened members — as he had been directed to do — he would have to include the first and last senators, and all between.
In vain he protested and claimed the protection of Louis XIV. The King at Versailles was busied with the saving of his soul and with the doctoring of his gangrened knee.
Here were rooms crowded with uncomfortable-looking beds, on which lay men whose gangrened wounds gave forth foul odors, which, mingled with the terrible effluvia from the mouths of patients ill of scurvy, sent a shuddering sickness through my frame.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include maggoted, spacelated, cankerous, manged, ganglike, cankered.
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