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canker

canker is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 14 senses

Definitions

  1. noun. 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.
  2. noun. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
  3. noun. A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
  4. noun. 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.
  5. noun. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.
  6. transitive verb. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
  7. transitive verb. To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
  8. intransitive verb. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
  9. intransitive verb. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
  10. noun. a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of

    "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"

    "according to him, I was the canker in their midst"

    Synonyms: pestilence

  11. noun. an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
  12. noun. a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark
  13. verb. infect with a canker
  14. verb. become infected with a canker

Synonyms

pestilence

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in canker:

neckar

Common word forms

cankers, cankered, cankering, cankerous

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