gangrene can be used as a verb
1. necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate -- (undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed")
gangrene can be used as a noun
1. gangrene, sphacelus, slough -- (necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass)
2. necrosis, mortification, gangrene, sphacelus -- (the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply))
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