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What does cankering mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of canker
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Believe me, they are deep and cankering when I think of Burton, not for myself, but another.
Avert the thought of it, and half a loaf will keep alive longer than a whole one, eaten together with cankering care.
His unfailing courage and good sense won fights that the incompetency or cankering jealousy of commanders had lost.
But he no longer felt that cankering animosity towards authority.
It had been, for more than two years, cankering the public mind.
A cankering disease, due, it is believed, to the action of certain bacteria, presently seized upon it.

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