cancrena

Italian

Noun

cancrena f (plural cancrene)

  1. (pathology) A more common alternative form of gangrena; gangrene
  2. (figuratively) A damaging or corrupting influence.
    • Caboara, Lorenzo (1975), La partitocrazia cancrena dello Stato, Roma: Volpe.
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