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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)
- (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
Spanish
Verb
gangrenate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of gangrenar combined with te