Definition of "gangrene" []

• Death and decay of body tissue, often occurring in a limb, caused by insufficient blood supply and usually following injury or disease. (noun)
• To affect or become affected with gangrene. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I agree with you that I don't go out of my way to find organic, "natural," (gangrene is natural, right?) or biodynamic wines."
• "Nobody will starve, get dysentery, get gangrene from a minor wound, or die of battle exhaustion."
• "The gangrene is very high up in my leg and the open thigh wound wasn't getting better."