Tom's foot had to be amputated after it had become infected with gangrene following a severe frostbite.
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Gangrene
//ˈɡæŋˌɡɹin//
Synonyms for "gangrene" (80 found)
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Closest matches (16)
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Related words (40)
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2 entriesderived
8 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
83 translations across 54 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- kouevuur noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Albanian
2 entries- gangrenë noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- gjall ngrënia noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- γάγγραινα noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- σφάκελος noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Arabic
3 entries- آكِلَة noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- غَرْغْرِينَا noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- غَنْغْرِينَة noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Armenian
1 entries- գանգրենա noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Basque
1 entries- haratustel noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Belarusian
1 entries- гангрэ́на noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гангре́на noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 壞疽 /坏疽 noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 壞疽 /坏疽 noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Czech
2 entries- gangréna noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- sněť noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Danish
2 entries- gangræn noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- koldbrand noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Dutch
2 entries- gangreen noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- koudvuur noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Esperanto
1 entries- gangreno noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Faroese
1 entries- kolubrandur noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Finnish
2 entries- gangreeni noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- kuolio noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
French
1 entries- gangrène noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Georgian
1 entries- განგრენა noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
German
3 entries- Brand noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- Gangrän noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- Wundbrand noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Greek
1 entries- γάγγραινα noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Hindi
1 entries- कोथ noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Hungarian
2 entries- gangréna noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- üszkösödés noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Icelandic
4 entries- brandur noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- drep í holdi noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- kolbrandur noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- átudrep noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Indonesian
1 entries- gangren noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Italian
1 entries- cancrena noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Japanese
1 entries- 壊疽 noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Kazakh
1 entries- гангрена noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Khmer
1 entries- ដំបៅរលួយ noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Korean
1 entries- 회저 noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Latin
1 entries- gangraena noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Macedonian
1 entries- гангре́на noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Marathi
1 entries- कोथ noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Mongolian
1 entries- үхжил noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Māori
1 entries- kikohunga noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Navajo
2 entries- iʼniiyą́ą́ʼ noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- naałdzid noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Nepali
1 entries- सइनको घाउले noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- gangren noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- koldbrann noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- gangren noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- kaldbrann noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Persian
1 entries- قانقاریا noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Polish
2 entries- gangrena noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- zgorzel noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Portuguese
1 entries- gangrena noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Romanian
1 entries- cangrenă noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Russian
1 entries- гангре́на noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- gangrena noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- гангрена noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Slovak
1 entries- gangréna noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Slovene
1 entries- gangrena noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Spanish
4 entries- cangrena noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- gangrena noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- noma noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- agangrenarse verb (to be affected with gangrene)
Swedish
2 entries- gangrän noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
- kallbrand noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Tagalog
1 entries- ganggrena noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Tibetan
1 entries- འདྲུལ་བ noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Turkish
1 entries- kangren noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гангре́на noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bệnh thối hoại noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Welsh
1 entries- madredd noun (the necrosis or rotting of flesh)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
If gangrene appears, it will have to be amputated.
Source: tatoeba (8160806)
If gangrene appears, it will be necessary to amputate.
Source: tatoeba (8975965)
Yanni contracted gangrene in one of his legs.
Source: tatoeba (10158566)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.