cankered
adjective
Meaning
- Infected with a canker or having a cankerous part
- Ulcerated
- Corrupted; morally corrupt
- Bad-tempered
- To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
- To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
- To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
- To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
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