gangrenize

Definitions

1. To cause or to develop gangrene.
2. To corrupt or cause to degenerate.
   figuratively

Examples

“Whoever knows what changes occur⟳ in an element of the body separated from the rest⟳ , and kept macerating at temperatures of F . 60° – 100° , can predict⟳ what changes the same element would undergo⟳ if gangrenized in connection with the body.”

“And that resulted, as we know⟳, in frightful stomatitis which gangrenized the gums, which disturbed, lay⟳ bare the teeth and often made them fall⟳ out, which sometimes extended to their base⟳, to necrosis of parts of the maxillas, and which in all cases imposed on the unfortunate patients a long and horrible suffering.”

“Yet several times after he seemed to be near success, "upon a sodaine ... his sores did putrifye and breake foorth again ... so that I feared his Vlcers would gangrenize." After over a year both surgeon and patient wearied and gave up.”

“Perhaps the worst imbecility of the Junkers was their policy towards gangrenized Russia .”

“A painting by Severini (of Scaramouche with a guitar and two masked pals) hangs near a cubist rendering of the Woolworth Building in New York, and a post-pre-Raphaelite landscape by a period-fancying Gloucestershire Hebrew, to point⟳ the gangrenizing of the time.”

“Many early-1970s leftist evocations of sexual violence instead developed claims made by left-wing critics of France's violent campaign to crush⟳ the Algerian revolution, who had warned that the security forces' systematic use⟳ of torture and extreme violence, notably rape, would “gangrenize” the French.”

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