Usually means: To undergo gangrene; necrotize, decay.
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  1. sphacelate: Collins English Dictionary
  2. sphacelate: Vocabulary.com
  3. sphacelate: Wordnik
  4. sphacelate: Wiktionary
  5. sphacelate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. sphacelate: Dictionary.com
  7. Sphacelate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. sphacelate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. sphacelate: Rhymezone
  10. Sphacelate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. sphacelate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. sphacelate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sphacelate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. sphacelate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Sphacelate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sphacelate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sphacelate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. sphacelate: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (sphacelate)

verb:  (transitive, medicine) To affect with gangrene, cause to gangrene, mortify.
verb:  (intransitive, medicine) To become gangrenous.
adjective:  Affected with gangrene; gangrenous, necrotic.

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