gangrened

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of gangrene

comparative more gangrened · superlative most gangrened

1. Infected with gangrene; gangrenous.

   In vain he protested and claimed the protection of Louis XIV. The King at Versailles was busied with the saving of his soul and with the doctoring of his gangrened knee.

   1906, Marie Hay, A German Pompadour

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   Yes, when the offender can be judged by laws: But when his greatness overturns the scales, Then kings are justice in the last appeal, And, forced by strong necessity, may strike; In which, indeed, they assert the public good, And, like sworn surgeons, lop the gangrened limb: Unpleasant, wholesome, work.

   1808, John Dryden, The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18)

   Here were rooms crowded with uncomfortable-looking beds, on which lay men whose gangrened wounds gave forth foul odors, which, mingled with the terrible effluvia from the mouths of patients ill of scurvy, sent a shuddering sickness through my frame.

   1888, Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers, Memories

2. Corrupt; degenerate.

   How different a representation is this from the prejudice and passion of Gangræna Edwards himself, more gangrened than any of his unhappy sectaries.

   1838, John Leifchild, Dr. Redford, The Evangelist, page 129

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   The army was daily becoming more gangrened by a wilful admixture of accredited and duly subventioned agents, who boasted the title of "Franc-Macons de la Solidarite/ Militaire," and who, forming a loathsome association, ceaselessly spied upon their brother officers, and reported to high quarters upon their religious and political opinions.

   1908, Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen, The Cradle of the Rose, page 42

   To give the Commission a list of gangrened members — as he had been directed to do — he would have to include the first and last senators, and all between.

   1957, Sydney Seymour Biro, The German Policy of Revolutionary France