cankering

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• Cankering — Canker Can ker (k[a^][ng] k[ e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cankered} ( k[ e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cankering}.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. [1913 Webster] No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• cankering — can·ker || kæŋkÉ™ n. sore; plant disease; rot, decay v. destroy, cause decay; injure …   English contemporary dictionary

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• Canker — Can ker (k[a^][ng] k[ e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cankered} ( k[ e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cankering}.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. [1913 Webster] No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. To… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Cankered — Canker Can ker (k[a^][ng] k[ e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cankered} ( k[ e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cankering}.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume. [1913 Webster] No lapse of moons can canker Love. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• canker — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French cancre, chancre, from Latin cancer crab, cancer Date: before 12th century 1. a. (1) an erosive or spreading sore (2) an area of necrosis in a plant; also a plant disease characterized by… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• A Larum for London — A Larum for London, or the Siedge of Antwerp is a play written by an anonymous author around the year 1602. It provides a graphic reenactment of the sack of Antwerp by Spanish troops in 1576, sometimes called the Spanish Fury. Not widely printed… …   Wikipedia

• Matthew Caffyn — (christened October 26, 1628 buried June 1714) was a British General Baptist preacher and writer.[1][2][3][4] Contents 1 Early life …   Wikipedia

• corrosion — n 1. gnawing, eating out or away, consumption, consuming, devouring, corroding, rusting, Both Chem. oxidation, oxidizing; erosion, eroding, attrition, detrition, wearing, wearing down or away, wear and tear, wasting away; abrasion, abrading,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• erosion — n 1. wearing, wearing down or away, wear and tear, wasting away, washing away, wash out, eroding, detrition, attrition; corrosion, corroding, fretting, gnawing, consumption, consuming, devouring, eating out or away; abrasion, abrading, rubbing… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• erosive — adj wearing, washing, erodent, eroding, at tritional, attritive; corrosive, corroding, caustic, fretting, gnawing, consumptive, consuming, eating; abrasive, abrading, chafing, fraying, scraping, excoriating, grating, rasping, grinding; cankering …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder