gangrene

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.

   “If gangrene sets in, we may have to amputate the foot.”

2. isim A damaging or corrupting influence.

   “Women should earn equal wages with men for equal work done. Child marriages and polygamy are a gangrene on society.”

3. fiil To produce gangrene in.

   “For where it chances to be successful, it is like the copper shot of the Mexicans, which gangrenes the wound.”

4. fiil To be affected with gangrene.

   “The leg will gangrene if the superficial femoral vessels be torn.”

5. fiil To corrupt; To cause to become degenerate.

   “The Stuart Restoration period was a necessary sequence of the Puritan period, and there is a similar cause for the sensualism that gangrenes the heart of our morbidly prudish Society of to-day.”