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Definition: Canker |
CankerNoun1. An ulceration (especially of the lips or living of the mouth). Verb1. Become infected with a canker. 2. Infect with a canker. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "canker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Canker a gangrene or mortification which gradually spreads over the whole body (2 Tim. 2:17). In James 5:3 "cankered" means "rusted" (R.V.) or tarnished. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing canker on anything, is an omen of evil. It foretells death and treacherous companions for the young. Sorrow and loneliness to the aged. Cankerous growths in the flesh, denote future distinctions either as head of State or stage life. The last definition is not consistent with other parts of this book, but I let it stand, as I find it among my automatic writings. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | In a tree, a definite, relatively localised, necrotic lesion, primarily of the bark and cambium. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Close inspection may show a dark brown discharge, with an unpleasant smell, indicating the presence of --, generally referred to as canker. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Canker The briar or dog-rose. "Put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke." Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., i. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. Eng. The ocherous sediment in mine waters, being bicarbonate of iron precipitated by the action of the air. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper; (evil doer); demon. |
Deterioration | Impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion,impairment, inquination, injury, damage, loss, detriment, delaceration, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath; perversion, prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation, poisoning, venenation, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption, adulteration, alloy. |
Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice. | |
Disease | Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out. |
Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. | |
Pain | Cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn; canker; (bane); scorpion; (evil doer); dagger; (arms); scourge; (instrument of punishment); carking care, canker worm of care. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Canker |
| English words defined with "canker": Canker blossom, Canker-bit, Cankered, Cankering, cankerous, Cankery, Corroding lead ♦ Egg mite, Encanker ♦ ulcerated, ulcerous ♦ Water canker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "canker": ear mite ♦ Scleroderris canker ♦ target canker. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Canker" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Cornish (crab). |
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Charles Baudelaire | A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Canker is a disease of plants, Cancer one of animals |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Behcet's disease is a rare, chronic, lifelong disorder that involves inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body. Symptoms of Behcet's disease include recurrent oral ulcers (resembling canker sores), recurrent genital ulcers, and eye inflammation. (references) | |
Political Economy | THE BAHAMAS | The Ministry continues to enforce its ban on imports of citrus plants and fruit from Florida, instated in 1995 because of reported outbreaks of canker disease. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Canker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Canker" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "canker": apple canker ♦ Atropellis canker ♦ Black canker ♦ blight canker ♦ Canker bloom ♦ Canker blossom ♦ canker brake ♦ Canker fly ♦ canker of the mouth ♦ Canker rash ♦ Canker Sores ♦ canker worm of care ♦ chestnut canker ♦ Scleroderris canker ♦ spur canker ♦ stem canker ♦ target canker ♦ water canker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "canker": canker-berry, Canker-bit, canker-bloom, canker-blooms, canker-resistant, canker-rose. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "canker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kanker (cancer). (various references) | |
Albanian | zjarrth, ulcerë (sore, ulcer), sëmundje (affection, ailment, complaint, disease, disorder, distemper, evil, ill, illness, infirmity, sickness), kalbëzim (corruption, putrefaction), infektoj (contaminate, infect), grij (chew, cut into pieces, grate, grind, hash, mince, scour, scrape, shred), brej (corrode, crunch, eat away, eat up, fret, gnaw, nibble). (various references) | |
Arabic | الآكلة قرحة الفم, داء يصيب قوائم الخيل, داء يصيب النبات. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | страдам от язви, разяждам (attack, bite, burn, corrode, eat, erode, fret, gnaw, rust), гангренозен стоматит, гангрена (gangrene, necrosis), болест по дърветата (dry rot, red rot). (various references) | |
Danish | kraeft (but which may also spread via blood vessels, cancer, cancrum, carcinoma, cheese rind rot, ulcerative lesion). (various references) | |
Dutch | kanker (cancer). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kancero (cancer). (various references) | |
Farsi | یکجورافت درختان میوه , فاسدکردن (Bastardize, Corrupt, Debauch, Deprave, Rot, Ruin, Spoil, Taint, Vitiate), فاسدشدن (Decay, Degenerate, Gangrene, Putrefy, Spoil, Vitiate), ماشرا, نوعی شته یاکرم , خوره (Leper, Leprosy), اکله . (various references) | |
Finnish | syöpä (cancer, carcinoma), sienikoro. (various references) | |
French | chancre (cancer), cancer (cancer). (various references) | |
German | mundgeschwür, krebs (barnacle, cancer, crab, crawfish, crayfish, crustacean). (various references) | |
Greek | καρκίνωμα δένδρου, καρκίνωμα (carcinoma), κατατρωώω, έλκοσ του στομάχου, σαράκι (caries, woodworm), πληγή (injury, laceration, lesion, minus, plague, scourge, sore, wound), φαγέδαινα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כיב (ulcer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megromlik (blew, blown, deteriorate, go bad, go sour, to addle, to blow, to corrupt, to deteriorate, to get spoiled, to go bad, to go off, to go pot, to perish, to rot, to spoil, to taint, turn sour), megférgesedik (to canker), féreg (insect, maggot, vermin, worm), elüszkösít (to canker), üszög (blight, mildew, mole, necrosis, rust). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyakit sariawan. (various references) | |
Italian | cancro (cancer), cancrena (gangrene), canchero, ulcerare (ulcerate), ulcera cancrenosa, stomatite ulcerosa, incancrenire (become gangrenous, mortify). (various references) | |
Manx | trullaghey (debauch, deprave, desecrate, desecration, doctor, profane; denaturation, sexually corrupt), loaughey (decay, decompose, decomposition, rot), drogh-chleayney, craiughey (corrode, corrosion, rasp, wasting), cankyr. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ankercay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | corromper (adulterate, attaint, bribe, contaminate, defile, foul, mislead, nobble, palm, pervert, poison, spoil, subvert, taint, vitiate), corroer (abrade, bite, corrode, erode, fret, gnaw, honeycomb, waste), cancro (cancer, chancre), câncer (cancer, carcinoma, crab, prawn), ulcerar (fester, rankle, ulcerate), preocupação (abstraction, care, discomfort, pester, preoccupation, solicitude, trouble, uneasiness, worry), necrose (mortification), influência perniciosa (blight), gangrenar (gangrene, sphacelate), gangrena (gangrene, mortification), úlcera (fester, sore, ulcer). (various references) | |
Romanian | ulcer (ulcer), tãciune (blight, brand, cinder, coal, embers, smut), roade (abrade, consume, corrode, crunch, eat, eat into, eat through, erode, fester, fray, fruitage, gall, gnaw, hollow, nibble, prey, wear), plagã (pest, pestilence, scourge, sore, wound), mâncãturã, influenţã distrugãtoare, infecta (attaint, contaminate, corrupt, infect, poison, rankle, taint), gangrenã. (various references) | |
Russian | язва (pest, sore, ulcer). (various references) | |
Scottish | feursa (a canker). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rak (cancer, carcinoma, clam, crawfish, crayfish), grizlica (ulcer), gara (rust), čir (blotch, carbuncle, ulcer), štetočina (blighter, locust, pest, vermin). (various references) | |
Spanish | corromper (corrupt, debauch, infect, pollute, rot, spoil), chancro (chancre), cancro, ulcerar, llaga gangrenosa, úlcera en la boca. (various references) | |
Swedish | rost (blight, grate, mildew, rust, smut), kräfta (cancer, crawfish, crayfish), brand (conflagration, fire, gangrene, mildew). (various references) | |
Turkish | yozlaştıran etmen, yara (bruise, cut, hurt, injury, lesion, raw, scotch, sore, trauma, ulcer, wound), pamukçuk oluşturmak, pamukçuk (aphtha, thrush), pamukçuğa yakalanmak, mahvolmak (be destroyed, be perished with, be ruined, go down, go phut, go smash, go to rack and ruin, go to ruin, go to the dogs, go west, lie in ruins, shipwreck, smash, smash up), mahvetmek (bang up, bankrupt, barbarize, be ruin of smb., beat smb. hollow, bring to ruin, bugger, bugger up, cook, corrupt, cut up, damn, destroy, devastate, dish, do for, exterminate, finish, kill, knock into a cocked hat, lay in ruins, lay low, make havoc of, play havoc with, pulverize, queer, ruin, sink, skunk, slaughter, smash, smash up, split, take smb. to the cleaners, undo, wallop, work havoc, wreck), buğdaypası, bozucu etken, ağız veya kulak yarası, çürütmek (cause to rot, confute, controvert, contuse, corrode, corrupt, decay, decompose, disproof, disprove, explode, molder, moulder, pick to pieces, putrefy, rebut, refute, rot, stultify), çürümek (become unsound, decay, decline, decompose, fester, go bad, go off, languish, molder, moulder, perish, putrefy, ret, rot, sphacelate, spoil). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | іржа (rust), стоматит (stomatitis), роз'їдати (corrode, eat, eat away, erode, fret, gnaw), розкладатися (corrupt, decay, disintegrate, molder, moulder, putrefy, resolve, rot), рак рослини, червоточина (applegrub, burrow), виразка (botch, ulcer), нівечити (deface, defeature, deform, disfigure, lame, maim, vandalize), заражати (contaminate, infect, poison, taint), загнивати (corrupt), поглинати (absorb, consume, devour, eat away, engulf, gulf, immerse, lap up, merge, mop up, occupy, overwhelm, suck in, swallow), пліснявка (thrush). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ảnh hưởng thối nát. (various references) | |
Welsh | cancro (corrode), cancr (cancer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cancer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Timothy Chapter 2, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai o logoV autwn wV gaggraina nomhn exei wn estin umenaioV kai filhtoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et sermo eorum ut cancer serpit ex quibus est Hymeneus et Philetus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the word of hem crepith as a canker. Of whiche Filete is, and Ymeneus, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And their wordes shall fret even as doeth a cancre: of whose nombre ys Hymeneos and Philetos |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Timothy Chapter 2, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | ug ang ilang sulosulti magaab-ab ingon sa kanggrina. Mga tawo nga ingon niini mao sila si Himeneo ug si Fileto, |
| Croatian | i rijeè æe njihova kao rak-rana izgrizati. Od njih su Himenej i Filet, |
| Danish | og deres Ord vil æde om sig som Kræft. Iblandt dem ere Hymenæus og Filetus, |
| Dutch | En hun woord zal voorteten, gelijk de kanker; onder welke is Hymeneus en Filetus; |
| Finnish | ja heidän puheensa jäytää ympäristöään niinkuin syöpä. Niitä ovat Hymeneus ja Filetus, |
| French | De ce nombre sont Hyménée et Philète, |
| German | und ihr Wort frißt um sich wie der Krebs; unter welchen ist Hymenäus und Philetus, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ajaran orang-orang itu menjalar seperti penyakit kanker yang ganas. Di antara mereka termasuk Himeneus dan Filetus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan perkataan mereka itu makan dalam seperti pekung; di antara mereka itu ada Himeneus dan Piletus, |
| Italian | la parola di costoro infatti si propagher come una cancrena. Fra questi ci sono Imenèo e Filèto, |
| Maori | A ka kaikai ta ratou kupu, ano he mea kua kikohangatia: no ratou a Himeniu raua ko Piritu; |
| Norwegian | og deres ord vil ete om sig som dødt kjøtt. Blandt disse er Hymeneus og Filetus, |
| Portuguese | e as suas palavras alastrarão como gangrena; entre os quais estão Himeneu e Fileto, |
| Rumanian | Wi cuvkntul lor va roade ca gangrena. Din numqrul acestora sknt Imeneu wi Filet, |
| Shuar | Ni jintiniamusha sunkurjai métek pampaawai. Iminíusha tura Piritiusha nu shuar ainiawai. |
| Spanish | Y la palabra de ellos carcomerá como gangrena. Entre ellos se cuentan Himeneo y Fileto, |
| Swahili | Mafundisho ya aina hiyo ni kama donda linalokula mwili. Miongoni mwa hao waliofundisha hayo ni Humenayo na Fileto. |
| Uma | Tudui' to hewa toe melelei hewa haki' pai' mpakada'a katuwu' wori' tauna. Himeneus pai' Filetus, hira' roduaa toe-mi to mpokeni tudui' to dada'a hewa toe. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "canker": cankered, cankering, cankerous, cankers, cankerworm, cankerworms. (additional references) | |
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"Canker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caker, cancar, cance, cancern, cancerr, cancor, cancr, cancver, cander, Canek, cankor, canoer, canser, capker, Carker, cener, clankier, cranker, Cyaneka, kanker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "canker" (pronounced ka"ngker) |
| 4 | -a" ng k er | anchor, banker, danker, hanker, rancor, ranker, tanker. |
| 3 | -ng k er | drinker, Dunker, bunker, clunker, conquer, freethinker, hunker, junker, linker, pinker, plunker, reconquer, sinker, supertanker, thinker, tinker, winker, yonker, younker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-n-r" | |
-1 letter: caner, crake, crane, crank, creak, nacre, rance. | |
-2 letters: acne, acre, cake, cane, care, cark, carn, earn, kane, karn, kern, knar, narc, nark, near, neck, race, rack, rake, rank, reck. | |
-3 letters: ace, ane, arc, are, ark, can, car, ear, era, ern, kae, kea, ken, nae, ran, rec. | |
-4 letters: ae, an, ar, en, er, ka, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bracken, cankers, cranked, cranker, crankle, knacker. | |
+2 letters: brackens, cankered, corncake, cracknel, crankest, crankier, crankled, crankles, creaking, knackers, knackery, neckwear, trackmen, unpacker. | |
+3 letters: benchmark, blackener, breakneck, canebrake, cankering, cankerous, caretaken, corncakes, corncrake, cracknels, cracksmen, crankcase, crankiest, dackering, greenback, knackered, lackering, nicknamer, panickier, racketing, raincheck, ransacked, ransacker, repacking, reracking, retacking, screaking, uncracked, unpackers. | |
+4 letters: backhander, benchmarks, blackeners, bracketing, canebrakes, cankerworm, caretaking, corncrakes, cornerback, cornflakes, crankcases, crankiness, creakiness, greenbacks, knackeries, linebacker, nicknamers, nutcracker, prepacking, rainchecks, ransackers, restacking, retackling, retracking, trancelike. | |
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