Etymology
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gangrene (n.)

"putrefaction or necrosis of soft tissues," 1540s, cancrena, from Latin gangraena (Medieval Latin cancrena), from medical Greek gangraina "an eating or gnawing sore," literally "that which eats away," a dissimilated, reduplicated form of gran- "to gnaw," from PIE root *gras- "to devour" (see gastric).

Entries linking to gangrene

gastric (adj.)
1650s, from Modern Latin gastricus, from Greek gaster (genitive gastros) "stomach, paunch, belly," often figurative of gluttony or greed, also "womb, uterus; sausage," by dissimilation from *graster, literally "eater, devourer," from gran "to gnaw, eat," from PIE root *gras- "to devour" (source also of Greek grastis "green fodder," Latin gramen "fodder, grass," Old English cærse "cress").
gangrenous (adj.)
1610s, from gangrene + -ous. Perhaps modeled on French gangréneux.
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Definitions of gangrene
1
gangrene (n.)
necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass;
Synonyms: sphacelus / slough
gangrene (n.)
the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply);
Synonyms: necrosis / mortification / sphacelus
2
gangrene (v.)
undergo necrosis;
Synonyms: necrose / mortify / sphacelate
From wordnet.princeton.edu

Dictionary entries near gangrene

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gangrenous

gangsta

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gangway

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