cankered Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb become infected with a canker
    canker.
  2. verb infect with a canker
    canker.

WordNet


Can"kered adjective
Definitions
  1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.
  2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. "A cankered grandam's will." Shak.

Webster 1913