canker

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
2. (countable, uncountable) A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
3. (countable, uncountable) A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
4. (countable, uncountable) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
5. (countable, uncountable) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
6. (countable, uncountable) A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
7. (countable, uncountable) An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
8. (countable, uncountable) An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
9. (Cornwall, countable, rare, uncountable) A crab.

Verb

1. (transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
2. (transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
3. (intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
4. (intransitive) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

Concepts

chancre

cancer

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ronger

venin

Synonymes

sore

ulcer

eat away

abscess

canker sore

cancer

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carcinoma

pestilence

wound

lesion

minus

plague

rot

rottenness

rust

scourge

tarnish

tumour

woodworm

become gangrenous

worm-hole

a kind of mouth disease

boil

caries

cold sore

corrode

destroy

evil

injury

laceration

Traductions

kanker

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çürümek

çürütmek

pamukçuk

mahvolmak

Mundgeschwür

càncer

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γάγγραινα

κατατρωώω

gelber Knopf

καρκίνωμα

σαράκι

φαγέδαινα

brand

έλκος του στομάχου

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈkæŋkɚ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: canker

Hérité de ancien anglais: cancer

Hérité de moyen anglais: cankren

In summary

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.