Definitions for gangrene

gangrene gan·grene

Spelling: [gang-green, gang-green]
IPA: /ˈgæŋ grin, gæŋˈgrin/

Gangrene is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in gangrene (aeeggnnr).

Definitions for gangrene

noun

  1. necrosis or death of soft tissue due to obstructed circulation, usually followed by decomposition and putrefaction.
  2. moral or spiritual corruption and decadence that pervades an individual or group: Synonyms: decay, rot; depravity, degeneracy.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to affect or become affected with gangrene.

Origin of gangrene

1535-45; Middle French gangrene (earlier cancrene) Latin gangraena Greek gángraina ‘an eating sore’

Examples for gangrene

Of course, if gangrene occurs, the man is permanently invalided.

Mixner almost died in February, after his lower intestine got twisted, leaving him with gangrene in his heart and lungs.

The ideology of bigotry can be found all over Europe, in fact, and its ugliness is spreading like gangrene, especially in France.

This bed was empty, because gangrene had set in, and the patient had died but yesterday.

gangrene is not curable by current medical intervention once past a certain point in its progression, except by amputation.

I did a ten minute scene in his class: the guy who had gangrene in his leg in The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

If gangrene has set in and no doctor is available, then treat as a burn.

He thought there had been gangrene and that it was going to fall off.

gangrene was in all the wards, the filth and foulness of the atmosphere were fearful.

In Alabama, an arrested 19-year-old shoplifter got gangrene and died naked on the floor of a “medical observation cell.”

Word Value for gangrene
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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