The Collaborative International Dictionary
Necrose \Ne*crose"\, v. t. & i. (Med.)
To affect with necrosis; to undergo necrosis.
--Quain.
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive pathology English) To become necrotic.
WordNet
v. undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed" [syn: gangrene, mortify, sphacelate]
Usage examples of "necrose".
Merry stocks her shelves with sprays, toxins, and molecules of fearsome potency, all of them synthesized by evil alchemists and guaranteed to necrose Planet Earth for eternity.
The wound, back and palm, was an ugly, gaping hole ridged with necrosed skin-and proud flesh.
Grove describes a necrosed inferior turbinated bone, to which was attached a coffee-grain which had been retained in the nostril for twenty years.
Chloroform was administered to excise a portion of the necrosed bone and death ensued.