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What does cankering mean?

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  1. present participle of canker
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A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it.
Avert the thought of it, and half a loaf will keep alive longer than a whole one, eaten together with cankering care.
It had been, for more than two years, cankering the public mind.
But he no longer felt that cankering animosity towards authority.
The tree cannot come to flower till its root be free from the cankering worm, and its whole growth open to air and light.
Believe me, they are deep and cankering when I think of Burton, not for myself, but another.

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