cankerousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

cankerous (comparative more cankerous, superlative most cankerous)

1. Infected with canker; ulcerous.
2. Causing canker; ulcerating.
   • 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Hall of Fantasy”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

     Hither may come the prisoner, escaping from his dark and narrow cell and cankerous chain, to breathe free air in this enchanted atmosphere.

引用

• 1843 William Youatt, John Stuart Skinner - The Horse

  A pledget of tar should be dipped in the acid, and then firmly pressed on the cankerous surface.

• 1861 Alfred Bate Richards - Croesus, King of Lydia

  Twas cankerous envy framed his sour reply.