Canker

['kæŋkə] or ['kæŋkɚ]

Definition

(noun.) an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth).

(noun.) a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark.

(verb.) infect with a canker.

(verb.) become infected with a canker.

Checker: Wyatt--From WordNet

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.

Editor: Stacy

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Corrupt, corrode, erode, eat away.

Editor: Nancy

Definition

n. an eating sore: a gangrene: a disease in trees or in horses' feet: anything that corrupts consumes irritates or decays.—v.t. to eat into corrupt or destroy: to infect or pollute: to make sour and ill-conditioned.—v.i. to grow corrupt: to decay.—adj. Cank′ered corroded: venomous malignant: soured: crabbed.—adv. Cank′eredly.—n. Cank′eredness.—adj. Cank′erous corroding like a canker.—n. Cank′er-worm a worm that cankers or eats into plants.—adj. Cank′ery affected with canker: (Scot.) crabbed.

Checker: Muriel