Drug addiction is a dangerous canker in society. 毒瘾腐蚀祸。
His mouth was cankered because he never brushed his teeth. 刷,嘴溃疡。
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. 雅5:3金银都锈.锈证、吃肉、火烧。
Cankered \Can"kered\, a. 1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.
2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. ``A cankered grandam's will.'' --Shak.
Canker \Can"ker\ (k[a^][ng]"k[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cankered} (-k[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cankering}.] 1. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
No lapse of moons can canker Love. --Tennyson.
2. To infect or pollute; to corrupt. --Addison.
A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate. --Herbert.