Definitions for cankered

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cankered can·kered

Spelling: [kang-kerd]

IPA: /ˈkæŋ kərd/

Cankered is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 260 anagrams from letters in cankered (acdeeknr).

Definitions for cankered

noun

1. a gangrenous or ulcerous sore, especially in the mouth.
2. a disease affecting horses' feet, usually the soles, characterized by a foul-smelling exudate.
3. a defined area of diseased tissue, especially in woody stems.
4. something that corrodes, corrupts, destroys, or irritates.
5. Also called canker rose. British Dialect. dog rose.

adjective

1. morally corrupt.
2. bad-tempered.
3. destroyed or having portions destroyed by the feeding of a cankerworm. having a cankerous part; infected with a canker.
4. ulcerated.

verb (used with object)

1. to infect with canker.
2. to corrupt; destroy slowly.

verb (used without object)

1. to become infected with or as if with canker.

Origin of cankered

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at canker, -ed³

Examples for cankered

But it rusted and cankered at your father's heart for years.'

Essex lost his head for having said that Elizabeth grew old and cankered, and that her mind was as crooked as her carcase.

The Mormons neither need your sympathy nor your cankered gold.

Your mind is cankered, or you never would have used that term.

Her fear had cankered his will and frozen his heart, and he had helped to fix her in it.

Among other doctors' prescriptions pasted in the book there is one for cankered ear in dogs.

But it is more like a garden than the cankered cat-walk it once was.

This will come upon you when your heart is cankered with caste.

Their gold is cankered, and their soul is brass,—is rusted brass.

And lovely girls, charming, and in Cynthia Walters's case a lily with a cankered calyx.