Usually means: Death of tissue from infection.
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  1. gangrene: Merriam-Webster
  2. gangrene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gangrene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gangrene: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gangrene: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gangrene, gangrene: Wordnik
  7. gangrene: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gangrene: Wiktionary
  9. gangrene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gangrene: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gangrene: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gangrene: Dictionary.com
  13. gangrene: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gangrene: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gangrene (book), Gangrene (disambiguation), Gangrene (group), Gangrene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gangrene: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gangrene: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gangrene: Rhymezone
  19. Gangrene: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gangrene: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gangrene: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gangrene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gangrene: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gangrene: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gangrene: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gangrene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. gangrene: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Gangrene: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Gangrene: Diabetes Dictionary
  6. Gangrene: Merck Manuals
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  10. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  12. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  13. Gangrene: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  14. gangrene: Medical dictionary
  15. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  16. Gangrene: Drug Medical Dictionary
  17. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gangrene: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary

(Note: See gangrened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.
noun:  (figuratively) A damaging or corrupting influence.
verb:  (transitive) To produce gangrene in.
verb:  (intransitive) To be affected with gangrene.
verb:  (transitive) To corrupt; To cause to become degenerate.

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