can|ker

can|ker
can|ker «KANG kuhr», noun, verb.
–n.
1. a spreading sore, especially a canker sore.
2. a fungous disease of plants, especially of fruit trees, that causes slow decay of the bark and tissues: »

... as killing as the canker to the rose (Milton).

3. Figurative. anything that causes rot or decay, or destroys by a gradual eating away: »

Unemployment is a canker that destroys man's self-respect.

4. = cankerworm. (Cf. ↑cankerworm)
5. a disease affecting horses' feet.
6. Dialect. the dog rose.
–v.t., v.i.
to infect or be infected with canker; decay; rot.
╂[Old English cancer < Latin, crab; tumor, gangrene. See etym. of doublets cancer (Cf. ↑cancer), chancre. (Cf. ↑chancre)]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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