gangrenate

English

Etymology

From gangrene +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French gangrener.

Verb

gangrenate (third-person singular simple present gangrenates, present participle gangrenating, simple past and past participle gangrenated)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become gangrenous.
   • 1751, Henry Bracken, Traveller's Pocket Farrier:

     I have ſeen the guts of ſuch horſes […] much diſposed to gangrenate

References

• “gangrenate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Spanish

Verb

gangrenate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of gangrenar combined with te