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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.