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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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.
- 3noun
A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.
- 6transitive verb
To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
- 7transitive verb
To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
- 8intransitive verb
To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
- 9intransitive verb
To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
- 10noun
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
- 11noun
an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
- 12noun
a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark
- 13verb
infect with a canker
- 14verb
become infected with a canker
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