Definitions for canker

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canker can·ker

Spelling: [kang-ker]

IPA: /ˈkæŋ kər/

Canker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in canker (aceknr).

Definitions for canker

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.

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 canker

before 1000; Middle English; Old English cancer Latin cancer; see cancer

Examples for canker

No wonder, no wonder, that like a canker it had eaten into his heart.

This covetousness is like canker, that eats the iron place where it lives.

But the atrophy of responsibility proved the canker at the heart of the Empire.

It was a bitter pill to have to go down and consult with canker, but he did not know what else to do.

It is very unworthy, I am afraid, but it is a canker that is eating my heart out.

The cheer is renewed by canker's men, yelling and hat waving at the heels of the herd.

I had rather be a canker in a hedge, than a rose in the grave.

The surface of the canker is black and rough and covered with minute black pimples.

canker was too much astonished by such directness to make any reply.

Beware of the little beginnings which 'eat as doth a canker.'