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sphacelate

sphacelate verb: to affect with gangrene, cause to gangrene, mortify.

Verb

sphacelate (third-person singular simple present sphacelates, present participle sphacelating, simple past and past participle sphacelated)

  1. (transitive) To affect with gangrene, cause to gangrene, mortify.
  2. (intransitive) To become gangrenous.

Adjective

sphacelate (not comparable)

  1. Affected with gangrene; gangrenous, necrotic.
  2. Dark and withered as though dead.

sphacelate meaning in Tamil

sphacelate in Tamil

தசையழுகலுறு

Forms of sphacelate

third-person singular presentsphacelates
present participlesphacelating
past participlesphacelated
pastsphacelated

Origin of sphacelate

From sphacel (“gangrene”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

From sphacel + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Words formed from sphacelate

Questions about sphacelate

What does sphacelate mean?
Sphacelate means to affect with gangrene, cause to gangrene, mortify.
What is sphacelate in Tamil?
Sphacelate in Tamil is தசையழுகலுறு. See Sphacelate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sphacelate?
Sphacelate can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of sphacelate?
The past tense of sphacelate is sphacelated.

Words near sphacelate in the dictionary

  1. SPGB
  2. SPGH
  3. SPGs
  4. SPH
  5. sphacel
  6. sphacelate
  7. sphacelated
  8. sphacelates
  9. sphacelating
  10. sphacelation
  11. sphacelations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sphacelate (page history and authors); sphacelate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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