Definition of canker in English:

canker

noun ˈkaŋkəˈkæŋkər

mass noun

1A destructive fungal disease of apple and other trees that results in damage to the bark.
（苹果等树的）溃疡病
cut out lesions on branches caused by canker
Example sentencesExamples
- Trees appear to resist bacterial canker but are very susceptible to fire blight.
- It pays to be on the lookout for apple scab, canker and mildew, tackling any problems before they become deeply ingrained and hard to treat.
- Activity in the citrus orchards of central Queensland has ground to a halt as the state calls for help to deal with the mammoth task of inspecting trees for the disease canker.
- But chief health officer Chris Adriaansen says states want trees in the quarantine area at Emerald individually inspected for canker.
- In the first stage, 8,000 trees are being treated with a copper spray, to contain the canker when trees are chopped down and burnt.
Synonyms
fungal disease, fungal rot, plant rot
1. 1.1count noun An open lesion in plant tissue caused by infection or injury.
  （因感染或损伤而引起的）植物组织溃疡
  check trees for cankers
  Example sentencesExamples
  Removal of bark over the canker reveals a sharply defined region of darkened or discolored wood bordered by white, healthy wood.
  As the infection progresses, trees undergo twig and branch dieback and develop stem cankers, which results in tree-death.
  In dry edible beans, anthracnose causes unsightly cankers on plant stems, pods, and seeds.
  He visits other chestnut trees, too, packing mud on their cankers and clipping flowers for use in breeding programs.
  Punching holes around each canker, Cummings Carlson's team inoculated the tree with a slurry of hypovirulent fungus.
2. 1.2 Fungal rot in some fruits and vegetables, e.g. parsnips and tomatoes.
  （欧洲萝卜、西红柿等水果、蔬菜的）真菌腐烂
  canker is this crop's arch enemy
  Synonyms
  fungal disease, fungal rot, plant rot
2An ulcerous condition or disease of a human or animal.
〔医〕溃疡，尤指
Synonyms
ulcer, ulceration, infection, sore, running sore, lesion, abscess, chancre
1. 2.1North American A small ulcer of the mouth or lips.
  〈主美〉口疮
  a remedy for canker sores
  Example sentencesExamples
  Call your doctor if your child's canker sore gets worse.
  Once it does, the canker sore may swell and burst in about a day.
  If your child's doctor prescribes a medicine that should be applied directly to the canker sore, first dry the area with a tissue.
  Most villagers show symptoms such as skin cankers as a result of breathing the poisonous air or drinking the polluted water over a long period.
  This means that you swish the medicine around in your mouth, especially around your canker sore, for a few minutes before swallowing it.
  When my husband was a little boy, the doctor told his mom he had a canker sore.
  Synonyms
  sore, ulceration, open sore, abscess, boil, carbuncle, pustule, blister, cyst, gumboil, wen
2. 2.2
  another term for thrush (sense 2)
3. 2.3 Ulceration of the throat and other orifices of birds, typically caused by a protozoal infection.
  （尤指因原生动物感染而引起的）鸟喉（或其他体孔）溃疡
  secondary infections of canker and coccidiosis
4. 2.4 Inflammation of the ear of a dog, cat, or rabbit, typically caused by a mite infestation.
  （尤指因原生动物感染而引起的）鸟喉（或其他体孔）溃疡
  Example sentencesExamples
  It promotes healing and dries up the inner ear canker as well as the external areas that may become sore and moist from the canker discharge.
  Be sure to purchase ear canker powder as it has the additional benefit of helping to control canker and ear mites in your Shih Tzu.
  When we took our cat to the clinic yesterday, the vet told us that the ear mites were gone, but he thinks that the ear canker may be too strong for our cat and it caused irritation.
  Ear mite or ear canker is a very common infection in most rabbitries and is economically important because of the loss of condition and poor reproductive performance that this infestation can cause.
  Whether or not ear mites are present, accumulated ear wax in a dog's ear can lead to ear canker and other serious infections.
  Synonyms
  ulcer, ulceration, infection, sore, running sore, lesion, abscess, chancre
3A malign and corrupting influence that is difficult to eradicate.
〈喻〉恶痈，恶疽
in singular racism remains a canker at the heart of the nation
种族主义仍是该国的心腹毒瘤。
Example sentencesExamples
- The problem is the blind smugness of a society, and a political class, that see teenage violence simultaneously as a canker and an abstraction.
- His hurt never diminished and remained as a canker that ate away at him as he grew older.
- It is quite a remarkable thing for a novelist to name the canker that makes for human rottenness, especially since James does it with such fine literary craft and such acute theological discernment.
- Anti-intellectualism is a hideous canker in our society, but it feeds on needless pretension and superiority.
- As music lovers might we not more frequently draw attention to this noise canker in our society?
- For politicians, the overstayer issue is a bit of a canker.
- There is a certain pathological view about corruption, about the entire organ being diseased, about a canker in national character, a view which has no basis in facts.
- ‘The frenzied addiction to art,’ wrote Baudelaire, is a canker that devours.
- Now the big question is how to curb the canker of corruption and restore much needed probity in public life.
- Yet it is impossible not to recognise in the modern game an additional and growing canker that has attached itself to all the old familiar forms of dubious behaviour.
- ‘That is the canker in the heart of the Conservative Party and that is what sparked the trouble,’ he said
Synonyms
blight, evil, scourge, poison, cancer, sickness, disease, pestilence, plague
rot, corruption

verb ˈkaŋkəˈkæŋkər

1no object (of woody plant tissue) become infected with canker.
（木本植物组织）感染溃疡；溃烂
we found some cankering of the wood
我们发现这木材有些溃烂现象。
Example sentencesExamples
- Spring shoot growth on diseased canes is weak and stunted above the cankered area.
- Because of Adam's sin, the whole mass of mankind is cankered at the roots.
- Tiny black specks, which are reproductive bodies of the cane blight fungus, develop in the brown cankered bark.
- Many larger trees showed cankered boles and parasite-bloated boughs.
- Stems may be girdled just above the soil line; tissue thus damaged may appear cracked or cankered.
2as adjective cankeredInfected with a pervasive and corrupting bitterness.
腐蚀，败坏
he hated her with a cankered, shameful abhorrence
他恶毒而可耻地憎恶她。
Example sentencesExamples
- I mean, you know, irony's funny and all, but if all you do is make fun of other things, you get this kind of cankered, empty feeling.
- I'm a 37-year-old graduate student who's having the usual dating difficulties common among those of us who are old and grey and cankered.
- Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.

Derivatives

cankerous

adjective ˈkaŋkərəsˈkæŋk(ə)rəs

It sows seeds of guilt and worthlessness in the child, fertile ground for cankerous depression to take root in the adult.
Example sentencesExamples
- He had inspected the dark labyrinth of the Old Brewery, tripping over the inert, inebriated bodies, peeking into miserable closets housing filthy mothers and cankerous children.
- It is a cankerous posthumous blot on the career of a very good architect, and her gentle and rather pandering critique of it is quite disappointing.
- Every August I determine to do this after I have harvested the fruit, and every year I get cold feet because the memory of the pears is so delicious that I cannot bear to lose them, cankerous or not.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a tumour): from Old French chancre, from Latin cancer 'crab' (see cancer).

cancer from Old English:
The pattern of swollen veins around malignant tumours gave them the name cancer because they looked like the limbs of a crab—cancer in Latin. In English canker (Middle English) was the usual form for the disease until the 17th century, when canker became the term for various plant diseases. The medical term carcinoma (early 18th century) comes from karkinos, Greek for ‘crab’.

Rhymes

anchor, banker, Bianca, Casablanca, Costa Blanca, flanker, franker, hanker, lingua franca, Lubyanka, rancour (US rancor), ranker, Salamanca, spanker, Sri Lanka, tanka, tanker, up-anchor

Definition of canker in US English:

canker

nounˈkaNGkərˈkæŋkər

1A destructive fungal disease of apple and other trees that results in damage to the bark.
（苹果等树的）溃疡病
Example sentencesExamples
- But chief health officer Chris Adriaansen says states want trees in the quarantine area at Emerald individually inspected for canker.
- Trees appear to resist bacterial canker but are very susceptible to fire blight.
- In the first stage, 8,000 trees are being treated with a copper spray, to contain the canker when trees are chopped down and burnt.
- It pays to be on the lookout for apple scab, canker and mildew, tackling any problems before they become deeply ingrained and hard to treat.
- Activity in the citrus orchards of central Queensland has ground to a halt as the state calls for help to deal with the mammoth task of inspecting trees for the disease canker.
Synonyms
fungal disease, fungal rot, plant rot
1. 1.1 An open lesion in plant tissue caused by infection or injury.
  （因感染或损伤而引起的）植物组织溃疡
  Example sentencesExamples
  Removal of bark over the canker reveals a sharply defined region of darkened or discolored wood bordered by white, healthy wood.
  He visits other chestnut trees, too, packing mud on their cankers and clipping flowers for use in breeding programs.
  Punching holes around each canker, Cummings Carlson's team inoculated the tree with a slurry of hypovirulent fungus.
  As the infection progresses, trees undergo twig and branch dieback and develop stem cankers, which results in tree-death.
  In dry edible beans, anthracnose causes unsightly cankers on plant stems, pods, and seeds.
2. 1.2 Fungal rot in some fruits and vegetables, e.g. parsnips and tomatoes.
  （欧洲萝卜、西红柿等水果、蔬菜的）真菌腐烂
  Synonyms
  fungal disease, fungal rot, plant rot
2An ulcerous condition or disease of a human or animal.
〔医〕溃疡，尤指
Synonyms
ulcer, ulceration, infection, sore, running sore, lesion, abscess, chancre
1. 2.1North American A small ulcer of the mouth or lips.
  〈主美〉口疮
  Example sentencesExamples
  This means that you swish the medicine around in your mouth, especially around your canker sore, for a few minutes before swallowing it.
  If your child's doctor prescribes a medicine that should be applied directly to the canker sore, first dry the area with a tissue.
  Call your doctor if your child's canker sore gets worse.
  Once it does, the canker sore may swell and burst in about a day.
  Most villagers show symptoms such as skin cankers as a result of breathing the poisonous air or drinking the polluted water over a long period.
  When my husband was a little boy, the doctor told his mom he had a canker sore.
  Synonyms
  sore, ulceration, open sore, abscess, boil, carbuncle, pustule, blister, cyst, gumboil, wen
2. 2.2
  another term for thrush (sense 2)
3. 2.3 Ulceration of the throat and other orifices of birds, typically caused by a protozoal infection.
  （尤指因原生动物感染而引起的）鸟喉（或其他体孔）溃疡
4. 2.4 Inflammation of the ear of a dog, cat, or rabbit, typically caused by a mite infestation.
  （尤指因原生动物感染而引起的）鸟喉（或其他体孔）溃疡
  Example sentencesExamples
  When we took our cat to the clinic yesterday, the vet told us that the ear mites were gone, but he thinks that the ear canker may be too strong for our cat and it caused irritation.
  Ear mite or ear canker is a very common infection in most rabbitries and is economically important because of the loss of condition and poor reproductive performance that this infestation can cause.
  Be sure to purchase ear canker powder as it has the additional benefit of helping to control canker and ear mites in your Shih Tzu.
  It promotes healing and dries up the inner ear canker as well as the external areas that may become sore and moist from the canker discharge.
  Whether or not ear mites are present, accumulated ear wax in a dog's ear can lead to ear canker and other serious infections.
  Synonyms
  ulcer, ulceration, infection, sore, running sore, lesion, abscess, chancre
3A malign and corrupting influence that is difficult to eradicate.
〈喻〉恶痈，恶疽
in singular racism remains a canker at the heart of the nation
种族主义仍是该国的心腹毒瘤。
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘The frenzied addiction to art,’ wrote Baudelaire, is a canker that devours.
- For politicians, the overstayer issue is a bit of a canker.
- His hurt never diminished and remained as a canker that ate away at him as he grew older.
- Yet it is impossible not to recognise in the modern game an additional and growing canker that has attached itself to all the old familiar forms of dubious behaviour.
- There is a certain pathological view about corruption, about the entire organ being diseased, about a canker in national character, a view which has no basis in facts.
- It is quite a remarkable thing for a novelist to name the canker that makes for human rottenness, especially since James does it with such fine literary craft and such acute theological discernment.
- As music lovers might we not more frequently draw attention to this noise canker in our society?
- Anti-intellectualism is a hideous canker in our society, but it feeds on needless pretension and superiority.
- Now the big question is how to curb the canker of corruption and restore much needed probity in public life.
- ‘That is the canker in the heart of the Conservative Party and that is what sparked the trouble,’ he said
- The problem is the blind smugness of a society, and a political class, that see teenage violence simultaneously as a canker and an abstraction.
Synonyms
blight, evil, scourge, poison, cancer, sickness, disease, pestilence, plague

verbˈkaNGkərˈkæŋkər

1no object (of woody plant tissue) become infected with canker.
（木本植物组织）感染溃疡；溃烂
we found some cankering of the wood
我们发现这木材有些溃烂现象。
Example sentencesExamples
- Tiny black specks, which are reproductive bodies of the cane blight fungus, develop in the brown cankered bark.
- Stems may be girdled just above the soil line; tissue thus damaged may appear cracked or cankered.
- Many larger trees showed cankered boles and parasite-bloated boughs.
- Because of Adam's sin, the whole mass of mankind is cankered at the roots.
- Spring shoot growth on diseased canes is weak and stunted above the cankered area.
2as adjective cankeredInfected with a pervasive and corrupting bitterness.
腐蚀，败坏
he hated her with a cankered, shameful abhorrence
他恶毒而可耻地憎恶她。
Example sentencesExamples
- Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
- I mean, you know, irony's funny and all, but if all you do is make fun of other things, you get this kind of cankered, empty feeling.
- I'm a 37-year-old graduate student who's having the usual dating difficulties common among those of us who are old and grey and cankered.

Origin

Middle English (denoting a tumor): from Old French chancre, from Latin cancer ‘crab’ (see cancer).

词汇	canker
释义	Definition of canker in English: canker noun ˈkaŋkəˈkæŋkər mass noun 1A destructive fungal disease of apple and other trees that results in damage to the bark. （苹果等树的）溃疡病 cut out lesions on branches caused by canker Example sentencesExamples Trees appear to resist bacterial canker but are very susceptible to fire blight. It pays to be on the lookout for apple scab, canker and mildew, tackling any problems before they become deeply ingrained and hard to treat. Activity in the citrus orchards of central Queensland has ground to a halt as the state calls for help to deal with the mammoth task of inspecting trees for the disease canker. But chief health officer Chris Adriaansen says states want trees in the quarantine area at Emerald individually inspected for canker. In the first stage, 8,000 trees are being treated with a copper spray, to contain the canker when trees are chopped down and burnt. Synonyms fungal disease, fungal rot, plant rot 1.1count noun An open lesion in plant tissue caused by infection or injury. （因感染或损伤而引起的）植物组织溃疡 check trees for cankers Example sentencesExamples Removal of bark over the canker reveals a sharply defined region of darkened or discolored wood bordered by white, healthy wood. As the infection progresses, trees undergo twig and branch dieback and develop stem cankers, which results in tree-death. In dry edible beans, anthracnose causes unsightly cankers on plant stems, pods, and seeds. He visits other chestnut trees, too, packing mud on their cankers and clipping flowers for use in breeding programs. Punching holes around each canker, Cummings Carlson's team inoculated the tree with a slurry of hypovirulent fungus. 1.2 Fungal rot in some fruits and vegetables, e.g. parsnips and tomatoes. （欧洲萝卜、西红柿等水果、蔬菜的）真菌腐烂 canker is this crop's arch enemy Synonyms fungal disease, fungal rot, plant rot 2An ulcerous condition or disease of a human or animal. 〔医〕溃疡，尤指 Synonyms ulcer, ulceration, infection, sore, running sore, lesion, abscess, chancre 2.1North American A small ulcer of the mouth or lips. 〈主美〉口疮 a remedy for canker sores Example sentencesExamples Call your doctor if your child's canker sore gets worse. Once it does, the canker sore may swell and burst in about a day. If your child's doctor prescribes a medicine that should be applied directly to the canker sore, first dry the area with a tissue. Most villagers show symptoms such as skin cankers as a result of breathing the poisonous air or drinking the polluted water over a long period. This means that you swish the medicine around in your mouth, especially around your canker sore, for a few minutes before swallowing it. When my husband was a little boy, the doctor told his mom he had a canker sore. Synonyms sore, ulceration, open sore, abscess, boil, carbuncle, pustule, blister, cyst, gumboil, wen 2.2 another term for thrush (sense 2) 2.3 Ulceration of the throat and other orifices of birds, typically caused by a protozoal infection. （尤指因原生动物感染而引起的）鸟喉（或其他体孔）溃疡 secondary infections of canker and coccidiosis 2.4 Inflammation of the ear of a dog, cat, or rabbit, typically caused by a mite infestation. （尤指因原生动物感染而引起的）鸟喉（或其他体孔）溃疡 Example sentencesExamples It promotes healing and dries up the inner ear canker as well as the external areas that may become sore and moist from the canker discharge. Be sure to purchase ear canker powder as it has the additional benefit of helping to control canker and ear mites in your Shih Tzu. When we took our cat to the clinic yesterday, the vet told us that the ear mites were gone, but he thinks that the ear canker may be too strong for our cat and it caused irritation. Ear mite or ear canker is a very common infection in most rabbitries and is economically important because of the loss of condition and poor reproductive performance that this infestation can cause. Whether or not ear mites are present, accumulated ear wax in a dog's ear can lead to ear canker and other serious infections. Synonyms ulcer, ulceration, infection, sore, running sore, lesion, abscess, chancre 3A malign and corrupting influence that is difficult to eradicate. 〈喻〉恶痈，恶疽 in singular racism remains a canker at the heart of the nation 种族主义仍是该国的心腹毒瘤。 Example sentencesExamples The problem is the blind smugness of a society, and a political class, that see teenage violence simultaneously as a canker and an abstraction. His hurt never diminished and remained as a canker that ate away at him as he grew older. It is quite a remarkable thing for a novelist to name the canker that makes for human rottenness, especially since James does it with such fine literary craft and such acute theological discernment. Anti-intellectualism is a hideous canker in our society, but it feeds on needless pretension and superiority. As music lovers might we not more frequently draw attention to this noise canker in our society? For politicians, the overstayer issue is a bit of a canker. There is a certain pathological view about corruption, about the entire organ being diseased, about a canker in national character, a view which has no basis in facts. ‘The frenzied addiction to art,’ wrote Baudelaire, is a canker that devours. Now the big question is how to curb the canker of corruption and restore much needed probity in public life. Yet it is impossible not to recognise in the modern game an additional and growing canker that has attached itself to all the old familiar forms of dubious behaviour. ‘That is the canker in the heart of the Conservative Party and that is what sparked the trouble,’ he said Synonyms blight, evil, scourge, poison, cancer, sickness, disease, pestilence, plague rot, corruption verb ˈkaŋkəˈkæŋkər 1no object (of woody plant tissue) become infected with canker. （木本植物组织）感染溃疡；溃烂 we found some cankering of the wood 我们发现这木材有些溃烂现象。 Example sentencesExamples Spring shoot growth on diseased canes is weak and stunted above the cankered area. Because of Adam's sin, the whole mass of mankind is cankered at the roots. Tiny black specks, which are reproductive bodies of the cane blight fungus, develop in the brown cankered bark. Many larger trees showed cankered boles and parasite-bloated boughs. Stems may be girdled just above the soil line; tissue thus damaged may appear cracked or cankered. 2as adjective cankeredInfected with a pervasive and corrupting bitterness. 腐蚀，败坏 he hated her with a cankered, shameful abhorrence 他恶毒而可耻地憎恶她。 Example sentencesExamples I mean, you know, irony's funny and all, but if all you do is make fun of other things, you get this kind of cankered, empty feeling. I'm a 37-year-old graduate student who's having the usual dating difficulties common among those of us who are old and grey and cankered. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Derivatives cankerous adjective ˈkaŋkərəsˈkæŋk(ə)rəs It sows seeds of guilt and worthlessness in the child, fertile ground for cankerous depression to take root in the adult. Example sentencesExamples He had inspected the dark labyrinth of the Old Brewery, tripping over the inert, inebriated bodies, peeking into miserable closets housing filthy mothers and cankerous children. It is a cankerous posthumous blot on the career of a very good architect, and her gentle and rather pandering critique of it is quite disappointing. Every August I determine to do this after I have harvested the fruit, and every year I get cold feet because the memory of the pears is so delicious that I cannot bear to lose them, cankerous or not. Origin Middle English (denoting a tumour): from Old French chancre, from Latin cancer 'crab' (see cancer). cancer from Old English: The pattern of swollen veins around malignant tumours gave them the name cancer because they looked like the limbs of a crab—cancer in Latin. In English canker (Middle English) was the usual form for the disease until the 17th century, when canker became the term for various plant diseases. The medical term carcinoma (early 18th century) comes from karkinos, Greek for ‘crab’. Rhymes anchor, banker, Bianca, Casablanca, Costa Blanca, flanker, franker, hanker, lingua franca, Lubyanka, rancour (US rancor), ranker, Salamanca, spanker, Sri Lanka, tanka, tanker, up-anchor Definition of canker in US English: canker nounˈkaNGkərˈkæŋkər 1A destructive fungal disease of apple and other trees that results in damage to the bark. （苹果等树的）溃疡病 Example sentencesExamples But chief health officer Chris Adriaansen says states want trees in the quarantine area at Emerald individually inspected for canker. Trees appear to resist bacterial canker but are very susceptible to fire blight. In the first stage, 8,000 trees are being treated with a copper spray, to contain the canker when trees are chopped down and burnt. It pays to be on the lookout for apple scab, canker and mildew, tackling any problems before they become deeply ingrained and hard to treat. Activity in the citrus orchards of central Queensland has ground to a halt as the state calls for help to deal with the mammoth task of inspecting trees for the disease canker. Synonyms fungal disease, fungal rot, plant rot 1.1 An open lesion in plant tissue caused by infection or injury. （因感染或损伤而引起的）植物组织溃疡 Example sentencesExamples Removal of bark over the canker reveals a sharply defined region of darkened or discolored wood bordered by white, healthy wood. He visits other chestnut trees, too, packing mud on their cankers and clipping flowers for use in breeding programs. Punching holes around each canker, Cummings Carlson's team inoculated the tree with a slurry of hypovirulent fungus. As the infection progresses, trees undergo twig and branch dieback and develop stem cankers, which results in tree-death. In dry edible beans, anthracnose causes unsightly cankers on plant stems, pods, and seeds. 1.2 Fungal rot in some fruits and vegetables, e.g. parsnips and tomatoes. （欧洲萝卜、西红柿等水果、蔬菜的）真菌腐烂 Synonyms fungal disease, fungal rot, plant rot 2An ulcerous condition or disease of a human or animal. 〔医〕溃疡，尤指 Synonyms ulcer, ulceration, infection, sore, running sore, lesion, abscess, chancre 2.1North American A small ulcer of the mouth or lips. 〈主美〉口疮 Example sentencesExamples This means that you swish the medicine around in your mouth, especially around your canker sore, for a few minutes before swallowing it. If your child's doctor prescribes a medicine that should be applied directly to the canker sore, first dry the area with a tissue. Call your doctor if your child's canker sore gets worse. Once it does, the canker sore may swell and burst in about a day. Most villagers show symptoms such as skin cankers as a result of breathing the poisonous air or drinking the polluted water over a long period. When my husband was a little boy, the doctor told his mom he had a canker sore. Synonyms sore, ulceration, open sore, abscess, boil, carbuncle, pustule, blister, cyst, gumboil, wen 2.2 another term for thrush (sense 2) 2.3 Ulceration of the throat and other orifices of birds, typically caused by a protozoal infection. （尤指因原生动物感染而引起的）鸟喉（或其他体孔）溃疡 2.4 Inflammation of the ear of a dog, cat, or rabbit, typically caused by a mite infestation. （尤指因原生动物感染而引起的）鸟喉（或其他体孔）溃疡 Example sentencesExamples When we took our cat to the clinic yesterday, the vet told us that the ear mites were gone, but he thinks that the ear canker may be too strong for our cat and it caused irritation. Ear mite or ear canker is a very common infection in most rabbitries and is economically important because of the loss of condition and poor reproductive performance that this infestation can cause. Be sure to purchase ear canker powder as it has the additional benefit of helping to control canker and ear mites in your Shih Tzu. It promotes healing and dries up the inner ear canker as well as the external areas that may become sore and moist from the canker discharge. Whether or not ear mites are present, accumulated ear wax in a dog's ear can lead to ear canker and other serious infections. Synonyms ulcer, ulceration, infection, sore, running sore, lesion, abscess, chancre 3A malign and corrupting influence that is difficult to eradicate. 〈喻〉恶痈，恶疽 in singular racism remains a canker at the heart of the nation 种族主义仍是该国的心腹毒瘤。 Example sentencesExamples ‘The frenzied addiction to art,’ wrote Baudelaire, is a canker that devours. For politicians, the overstayer issue is a bit of a canker. His hurt never diminished and remained as a canker that ate away at him as he grew older. Yet it is impossible not to recognise in the modern game an additional and growing canker that has attached itself to all the old familiar forms of dubious behaviour. There is a certain pathological view about corruption, about the entire organ being diseased, about a canker in national character, a view which has no basis in facts. It is quite a remarkable thing for a novelist to name the canker that makes for human rottenness, especially since James does it with such fine literary craft and such acute theological discernment. As music lovers might we not more frequently draw attention to this noise canker in our society? Anti-intellectualism is a hideous canker in our society, but it feeds on needless pretension and superiority. Now the big question is how to curb the canker of corruption and restore much needed probity in public life. ‘That is the canker in the heart of the Conservative Party and that is what sparked the trouble,’ he said The problem is the blind smugness of a society, and a political class, that see teenage violence simultaneously as a canker and an abstraction. Synonyms blight, evil, scourge, poison, cancer, sickness, disease, pestilence, plague verbˈkaNGkərˈkæŋkər 1no object (of woody plant tissue) become infected with canker. （木本植物组织）感染溃疡；溃烂 we found some cankering of the wood 我们发现这木材有些溃烂现象。 Example sentencesExamples Tiny black specks, which are reproductive bodies of the cane blight fungus, develop in the brown cankered bark. Stems may be girdled just above the soil line; tissue thus damaged may appear cracked or cankered. Many larger trees showed cankered boles and parasite-bloated boughs. Because of Adam's sin, the whole mass of mankind is cankered at the roots. Spring shoot growth on diseased canes is weak and stunted above the cankered area. 2as adjective cankeredInfected with a pervasive and corrupting bitterness. 腐蚀，败坏 he hated her with a cankered, shameful abhorrence 他恶毒而可耻地憎恶她。 Example sentencesExamples Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. I mean, you know, irony's funny and all, but if all you do is make fun of other things, you get this kind of cankered, empty feeling. I'm a 37-year-old graduate student who's having the usual dating difficulties common among those of us who are old and grey and cankered. Origin Middle English (denoting a tumor): from Old French chancre, from Latin cancer ‘crab’ (see cancer).
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