1. causing corruption, decay, or gradual destruction
Usage: literary

1. present participle of canker: becoming infected with canker; spreading corruption or decay

Examples

• The cankering influence of greed destroyed the once-honest politician.
• Jealousy was a cankering emotion that poisoned their friendship.
• The wound was cankering despite the doctor’s treatment.
• Years of neglect left the building’s foundation cankering away.
• His cankering resentment grew stronger each day.
• The disease was slowly cankering the tree’s bark.