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What does cankering mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of canker
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Such a relief is physical danger to the slow and cankering disease of a despairing heart!
A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it.
It had been, for more than two years, cankering the public mind.
His unfailing courage and good sense won fights that the incompetency or cankering jealousy of commanders had lost.
Avert the thought of it, and half a loaf will keep alive longer than a whole one, eaten together with cankering care.
Believe me, they are deep and cankering when I think of Burton, not for myself, but another.

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