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canker

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkæŋkɚ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aceknrStarts with CEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. infect with a canker

Word origin

From Middle English canker, cancre, from Old English cancer (“cancer; crab”), akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. Ultimately from Latin cancer (“a cancer”). Doublet of cancer, a later borrowing from Latin, and chancre, which came through French.

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  • Slightly sunken brown cankers of variable size and shape affect stem parts primarily below the soil line.
  • loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud[…]
  • the canker of destitution and violence.

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