Usually means: Corroded, infected, or embittered condition.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. cankered: Merriam-Webster
  2. cankered: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cankered: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cankered: Vocabulary.com
  5. cankered: Wordnik
  6. cankered: Wiktionary
  7. cankered: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. cankered: Dictionary.com
  9. Cankered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. cankered: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Cankered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. cankered: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. cankered: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Cankered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cankered: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cankered: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cankered: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. cankered: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CANKERED: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cankered: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cankered)

adjective:  Infected with a canker or having a cankerous part
adjective:  Ulcerated
adjective:  (figuratively) Corrupted; morally corrupt
adjective:  (figuratively) bad-tempered

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