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Meanings of canker in English
Usage of canker in English
1
The argument was irrefutable; Mrs. Martin agreed; and yet the canker spread.
2
And I have left the revelation of the canker to the last.
3
But their faith was the canker at the root of the tree.
4
Rub the canker off it, by sending it from hand to hand.
5
But a gnawing canker had crept into the heart of his force.
6
By some thrush is believed to be but the commencement of canker.
7
Evil, like a Cancer, while the root remains the canker grows worse.
8
Mucous erosions, canker sores, little ulcers, etc., are produced in this way.
9
Here, for Hilda, was the secret canker of George Cannon's brilliant success.
10
Burnt alum held in the mouth is good for the canker.
11
The peculiar mottled appearance of the inner bark of the canker.
12
After the canker forms on the trunk, the tree soon dies.
13
Slavery undoubtedly proved the most destructive canker of the Roman State.
14
And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus:
15
There was no canker of envy or discontent in his soul.
16
The apple has its worm, the rose its canker, the steel its rust.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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