can·kered /-kɝd/ 形容詞
Can·ker v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cankered 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.
A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. --Herbert.
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.”
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