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What is the adjective for gangrene?

What's the adjective for gangrene? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs gangrene and gangrenate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

gangrenescent
  1. Tending towards mortification or gangrene.
gangrened
  1. Infected with gangrene; gangrenous.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But the vet said the rock hand lacerated his stomach and part of the intestine had gangrened.”
      “Besides the management problems seemed to have gangrened the life of the group already a bit weary of itself.”
      “Along the way, the pilgrims would ask the monks of St Anthony to alleviate the pains in their gangrened limbs by touching them with the tip of their tau-shaped staffs.”
gangrenous
  1. Indicative of or afflicted with gangrene.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Painful skin ulcers with gangrenous margins may be a feature of mixed bacterial infections.”
      “The former RAF wireless operator developed sores while on marching duty that became gangrenous, causing his legs to be amputated.”
      “Many soldiers suffered from trench foot, an infection which could turn gangrenous and result in amputation.”
gangrening
gangrenated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of gangrenate
gangrenating
  1. present participle of gangrenate
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