Cankered

Synonyms for "cankered" (68 found)

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Closest matches (14)

bad bearish bitchy cantankerous churlish contaminated crabbed cranky crosscross grained

Adjective(4 words)

cankerous corrupt corrupted corrupting

Strong matches (20)

crotchety crusty cussed decomposed disagreeable excitable feisty festering foul fractious gangrened huffy

Adjective(7 words)

decay degenerate deteriorate develop diseased embittered infect

Adjective(1 words)

decayed

Related words (34)

Adjective(8 words)

infected insidious lesion-bearing necrotic pernicious rot rotted tainted

irascible irritable mean morbid mortified ornery pathological peccant perverse poisoned putrefied putrid quarrelsome rotten rotting septic snappish spiteful spleeny splenetic

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spoiled testy ugly ulcerated vinegarish waspish

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More general

9 entries

affect condition damage degrade disease influencemoral stateprogress state

More specific

15 entries

bacterial cankerbark cankerblightcanker infected barkcanker infected woodcorruption decay depravityfruit cankerfungal cankerimmorality infection rottree cankervenality

Collocations

11 entries

bacterial cankercanker diseasecanker infectioncanker managementcanker progressioncanker spreadcanker symptomscankered barkcankered tissuecankered woodfungal canker

Inflections

4 entries

cankering cankersmore cankeredmost cankered

Derivations

3 entries

canker cankering cankerous

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