Crossword-Solution: CANKER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Canker | n. | 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. |
| Canker | n. | Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy. |
| Canker | n. | A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. |
| Canker | n. | 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. |
| Canker | n. | A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose. |
| Canker | v. t. | To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. |
| Canker | v. t. | To infect or pollute; to corrupt. |
| Canker | v. i. | To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral. |
| Canker | v. i. | To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CANKER | anagram | NECKAR |
We have 20 clues for the answer “CANKER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Spreading sore | 1 answer |
| ROTTEN tendency | 1 answer |
| A corroding influence. | 1 answer |
| Ulcerous | 3 answers |
| animalize | 5 answers |
| bestialize | 13 answers |
| ANIMALISE | 15 answers |
| Ulcer | 19 answers |
| bestialise | 27 answers |
| Decompose | 29 answers |
| deprave | 40 answers |
| blight | 41 answers |
| denature | 41 answers |
| demoralize | 46 answers |
| Demoralise | 50 answers |
| Sore | 54 answers |
| Injury | 57 answers |
| make unfit | 57 answers |
| Rot | 58 answers |
| Vitiate | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with CANKER (5)
Chapter XXIX “Care, thou canker.” It is an evening at the beginning of October, and the mellowest of autumn sunsets irradiates London, even to its uttermost eastern end.
The farrier said he might mend up enough to sell for a few pounds, but Jerry said, no! a few pounds got by selling a good old servant into hard work and misery would canker all the rest of his money, and he thought the kindest thing he could do for the fine old fellow would be to put a sure bullet through his head, and then he would never suffer more; for he did not know where to find a kind master for the rest of his days.
The canker of civilisation had got to him even in Bogota, and he could not find it in himself to go down and assassinate a blind man.
Here is a father now, Will truck his daughter for a foreign venture, Make her the stop-gap to some canker’d feud, Or fling her o’er, like Jonah, to the fishes, To appease the sea at highest.
But at night, in this lava world of ashes and canker, he waited for this terrible strangeness of nature to come to him with the secret.
Quotes with CANKER (3)
Tom smiled at the Fleming — a bright, friendly smile — and bobbed his head courteously. That confused the jolt-head. Then, by way of making conversation while his confederates gained their positions, he said, "I suppose someone must have told you — your mother, perhaps, or your father, though I doubt you ever knew him — that you're an idle-headed canker. A rank pustule? No? Not even an irksome, crook-pated, pathetical nit?" The Fleming, his face as red as hot steel, roared an…
The canker of self-consciousness has been long in me, so like a lot of writers I not only do a thing, I see myself doing it too — it’s almost like not being alone. That morning our hero skipped in his skivvies down to the shore of the sea . . . it was dark . . . the fog . . . Storytelling!
Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. To claim special communal rights (or should one say rites?) leads to a dangerous fragmentation within society. This communalism is a canker; whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1951–2017).