canker

[Can·ker]

A canker is something terrible that is hard to get rid of. Think of how you feel about the canker sore in your mouth. Drug use is a canker on our society, destroying lives and families.

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A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.

Noun
an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)

Verb
infect with a canker

Verb
become infected with a canker

n.
A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.

n.
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.

n.
A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.

n.
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.

n.
A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.

v. t.
To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.

v. t.
To infect or pollute; to corrupt.

v. i.
To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.

v. i.
To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

Canker

Can"ker , n. [OE. canker, cancre, AS. cancer (akin to D. kanker, OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. excrescence on tree, gangrene. Cf. also OF. cancre, F. chancere, fr. L. cancer. See cancer, and cf. Chancre.] 1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma. 2. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.

The cankers of envy and faction.

3. (Hort.) A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. 4. (Far.) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush. 5. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.

To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose. And plant this thorm, this canker, Bolingbroke.

Black canker. See under Black.

Canker

Can"ker , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cankered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cankering.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune.

No lapse of moons can canker Love.

2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison.

A tithe purloined canker the whole estate.

Canker

Can"ker, v. i. 1. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. [Obs.]

Silvering will sully and canker more than gliding.

2. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

Deceit and cankered malice.

As with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.

A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.

To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consune.

To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.

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Usage Examples

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

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