Gangrenize

Quick meaning: Gangrenize is a verb meaning To cause or to develop gangrene.

Meaning

To cause or to develop gangrene.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) To corrupt or cause to degenerate.

Example Sentences

Perhaps the worst imbecility of the Junkers was their policy towards gangrenized Russia .

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• gangrenizes
• gangrenizing
• gangrenized

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gangrenise, gangrene, gangrenate, fester, gangsterize, greisenize.

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