Canker

Definition:

  • (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.

Compare canker with other words:

canker vs. yanker

canker vs. cawker

canker vs. hanker

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canker vs. tanker

canker vs. canter

banker vs. canker

canker vs. cankery

calker vs. canker

canker vs. canoer

canker vs. janker

canker vs. ranker

canker vs. wanker

canker vs. chancre

canker vs. cankerous

canker vs. venomous

canker vs. diseased

canker vs. mineral

canker vs. oxidized

canker vs. rusty

canker vs. waste

canker vs. pollute

canker vs. infect

canker vs. consume

canker vs. frounce

canker vs. roup

canker vs. noma

canker vs. thrush

canker vs. growth

canker vs. fungoid

canker vs. horny

canker vs. horse

canker vs. foot

canker vs. incurable

canker vs. rose

canker vs. obstinate

canker vs. wild

canker vs. corrupt

canker vs. destroy

canker vs. corrode

canker vs. gangrenous

canker vs. ulcer

canker vs. slough

canker vs. decay

canker vs. disease

canker vs. plant

cancer vs. canker

canker vs. cold