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affliction
English
Etymology
From Middle English affliction, affliccioun, from Old French afliction, from Latin afflictio, from affligere. See afflict.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??fl?k??n/
- Hyphenation: af?flic?tion
Noun
affliction (countable and uncountable, plural afflictions)
- A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
- Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
- 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
- She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were an affliction, but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]
- 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
Translations
French
Etymology
From Old French afliction, from Latin afflictio, from affligere.
Pronunciation
Noun
affliction f (plural afflictions)
- (countable and uncountable) affliction
Further reading
- “affliction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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canker
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kæ?k?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæ?k?/
- Rhymes: -æ?k?(?)
- Hyphenation: can?ker
Etymology 1
From Middle English canker, cancre, from Old English cancer, akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. Ultimately from Latin cancer (“a cancer”). Doublet of cancer, a later borrowing from Latin, and chancre, which came through French.
Noun
canker (countable and uncountable, plural cankers)
- (phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
- A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
- 1977, The Potato: Major Diseases and Nematodes, International Potato Center, page 46:
- Slightly sunken brown cankers of variable size and shape affect stem parts primarily below the soil line.
- 1977, The Potato: Major Diseases and Nematodes, International Potato Center, page 46:
- A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 35:
- loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud ...
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 35:
- A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
- Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
- c. 1690', Sir William Temple, Of Heroick Virtue
- the cankers of envy and faction
- c. 1690', Sir William Temple, Of Heroick Virtue
- A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
- ca. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, sc. 3:
- To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,
- An plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?
- ca. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, sc. 3:
- An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
- An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
Synonyms
- (ulcer, especially of the mouth): water canker, canker of the mouth, noma
- (bird disease): avian trichomoniasis, roup
- (hawk disease): frounce
Related terms
- chancre
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English cankren, from the noun (see above).
Verb
canker (third-person singular simple present cankers, present participle cankering, simple past and past participle cankered)
- (transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
- 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 26:
- Still onward winds the dreary way; / I with it; for I long to prove / No lapse of moons can canker Love, / Whatever fickle tongues may say.
- 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 26:
- (transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
- (intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
- (intransitive) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
- 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, sc. 1:
- as with age his body uglier grows,
- So his mind cankers.
- 1971, E. M. Forster, Maurice, Penguin, 1972, Chapter 36, p. 156,[1]
- […] the road, always in bad condition, was edged with dog roses that scratched the paint. Blossom after blossom crept past them, draggled by the ungenial year: some had cankered, others would never unfold:
- 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, sc. 1:
References
- canker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Neckar, nacker
Scots
Alternative forms
- cancre, cankyr, kanker
Etymology
Middle English canker, cancre, Old English cancer, akin to Dutch kanker, Old High German chanchar. From Latin cancer (“a cancer”).
Pronunciation
- (Southern Scots) IPA(key): /?k????k?r/
Noun
canker (plural cankers)
- Bad temper.
Verb
canker (third-person singular present cankers, present participle cankerin, past cankert, past participle cankert)
- (archaic) To become bad-tempered, to fret, to worry.
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