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Definition of gangrenous : Affected by, or produced by, gangrene; of the nature of gangrene.

Synonyms:

embarrassed, humiliated

dilapidated, decomposed, rotten, mortified, molten, broken, dissected, anatomized, degenerated, disintegrated, spoiled, festering, dissolved, crumbled, turned, putrefied, shattered, decayed

insalubrious, deadly, poisonous, pestilent, diseased, contaminated, toxic, pathological, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesome, infected, noxious, malignant, contagious, septic

Usage examples:

• Abscesses of the liver, gangrenous processes of the lips and nose, and gangrenous affections of the hoof have all been caused in sheep by this organism. - "Special Report on Diseases of Cattle", U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler.
• The gangrenous spot over the left ilium is separating from the surrounding tissues. - "Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society", Joseph Bradford Cox.
• No sooner had one speaker convinced his hearers that women would precipitate anarchy by their radicalism than the next proved equally conclusively that an era of dilettantism and millinery shop legislation would be the inevitable result of woman suffrage; no sooner were they filled with the horror of the degradation of politics by the class of women certain to participate in it, than another speaker assured them that politics was already so vile that any woman would be hopelessly contaminated who had anything to do with the gangrenous growth, and yet another showed that women wouldn't vote anyhow. - "An American Suffragette", Isaac N. Stevens.