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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cankered \Can"kered\, adjective
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.'' --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Canker \Can"ker\ (k[a^][ng]"k[~e]r), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cankered} (-k[~e]rd); 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. --Addison.
A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. --Herbert.
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