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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Canker \Can"ker\ (k[a^][ng]"k[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cankered} (-k[~e]rd); p. pr & vb n. {Cankering}.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away to corrode; to consume. No lapse of moons can canker Love. --Tennyson. 2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. --Addison. A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. --Herbert. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cankered \Can"kered\, a. 1. Affected with canker; as a cankered mouth. 2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. ``A cankered grandam's will.'' --Shak.
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