gangrener
French, verb
gangrener is spelled G-A-N-G-R-E-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written French, the 154,162nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gangrener is a French verb meaning “to develop gangrene” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, gangréner is a different word: “alternative form of gangrener”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Affecter de gangrène”.
What does gangrener mean in English?
verb
- 1
to develop gangrene
- 2
to completely corrupt
verb
- 1
alternative form of gangrener
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Affecter de gangrène. 2. Emploi pronominal : développer une gangrène. 3. Corrompre entièrement.
verb: 1. Variante, parfois utilisée dans le passé, du verbe gangrener.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gangrener
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- gangrenant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- gangrené participle past
- gangrène first-person indicative present
- gangrènes indicative present second-person
- gangrenons first-person indicative plural
- gangrenez indicative plural present
- gangrènent indicative plural present
- gangrenais first-person imperfect indicative
- gangrenait imperfect indicative singular
- gangrenions first-person imperfect indicative
- gangreniez imperfect indicative plural
- gangrenaient imperfect indicative plural
- gangrenai first-person historic indicative
- gangrenas historic indicative past
- gangrena historic indicative past
- gangrenâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is gangrener in French?
gangrener appears about once in every 23 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).