All canker synonyms
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C c noun canker
- blight — You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
- corrosion — Corrosion is the damage that is caused when something is corroded.
- scourge — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
- sore — suffering bodily pain from wounds, bruises, etc., as a person: He is sore because of all that exercise.
- ulcer — Pathology. a sore on the skin or a mucous membrane, accompanied by the disintegration of tissue, the formation of pus, etc.
- smutch — to smudge or soil.
- rot — to undergo decomposition; decay.
- corruption — Corruption is dishonesty and illegal behaviour by people in positions of authority or power.
- boil — When a hot liquid boils or when you boil it, bubbles appear in it and it starts to change into steam or vapour.
- blister — A blister is a painful swelling on the surface of your skin. Blisters contain a clear liquid and are usually caused by heat or by something repeatedly rubbing your skin.
- lesion — an injury; hurt; wound.
- cancer — Cancer is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a crab. People who are born approximately between the 21st of June and the 22nd of July come under this sign.
- bane — The bane of someone or the bane of someone's life is something that frequently makes them feel unhappy or annoyed.
- pest — a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube (Buda and Obuda) and one on the E bank (Pest)
- plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- menace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- disease — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
- malignancy — the quality or condition of being malignant.
verb canker
- pervert — to affect with perversion.
- debase — To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
- consume — If you consume something, you eat or drink it.
- pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
- bestialize — to make bestial or brutal
- ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- poison — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- corrode — If metal or stone corrodes, or is corroded, it is gradually destroyed by a chemical or by rust.
- inflict — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- vitiate — to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
- debauch — to lead into a life of depraved self-indulgence
- deprave — Something that depraves someone makes them morally bad or evil.
- stain — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- demoralize — If something demoralizes someone, it makes them lose so much confidence in what they are doing that they want to give up.
- animalize — to rouse to brutality or sensuality or make brutal or sensual
- corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
- demoralise — to deprive (a person or persons) of spirit, courage, discipline, etc.; destroy the morale of: The continuous barrage demoralized the infantry.