Definition of "gangrening" []

• Present participle of gangrene. (verb)

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• "It drags upon me like a prisoner's gangrening fetter, and I'm getting tired of it."
• "My earnest wish is that balm may be poured into all the wounds which have been given, to prevent them from gangrening, and to avoid those fatal consequences which the community may sustain if it is withheld."
• "We must, then, proceed on a true principle in trying to remedy the profligacy that disgraces so many of our crowded centres, and the demoralization that is fast gangrening even our rural districts."