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cankred

cankred is the obsolete spelling of cankered.

Meaning of cankered

Adjective

cankered (comparative more cankered, superlative most cankered)

  1. Infected with a canker or having a cankerous part.
  2. Ulcerated.
  3. (figuratively) Corrupted; morally corrupt.
  4. (figuratively) Bad-tempered.

Questions about cankred

What is cankred the obsolete spelling of?
Cankred is the obsolete spelling of cankered.

Words near cankred in the dictionary

  1. canking
  2. cankins
  3. cankle
  4. cankles
  5. Canklow
  6. cankred
  7. canks
  8. canky
  9. Canköy
  10. Canlanipa
  11. Canlaon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cankred (page history and authors); cankered (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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