This card teaches the noun and verb uses of the word 'canker,' meaning a source of corruption or decay, as well as sores in the mouth or diseases in animals and plants.
Bu kart, hem yozlaşma veya çürüme kaynağı hem de ağızdaki yaralar, hayvan ve bitkilerdeki hastalıklar anlamına gelen 'canker' kelimesinin hem isim hem de fiil olarak kullanımlarını öğretir.
| Back | canker /KANG-kuhr/ |
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| Front | noun 1. A source of corruption or decay. 2. Ulcerous sores in the mouth; also any of various diseases affecting animals and plants. verb tr., intr. 1. To corrupt or to become corrupted. 2. To infect with or be infected with canker. [From Old English cancer (crab, tumor). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kar-/ker- (hard), which also gave us standard, cancer, and hard. Earliest documented use: 1384.] "And in your family, so in the world ... we shall cut away the canker that infects us until only those of the true blood remain." - J.K. Rowling; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Bloomsbury; 2010. |
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