Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected with a cancer.
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Examples
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Blessed are the cancered, the vanished, the stillborn.
Three Prayers for Rain Joe Kapitan 2011
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Blessed are the cancered, the vanished, the stillborn.
Three Prayers for Rain Joe Kapitan 2011
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He had spoken rather forcefully and now fell back on his pillow, aching in the cancered prostate, in his failing kidneys and in each of his four broken bones.
Hawaii Michener, James 1959
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They didn't know it had been taken off a cancered bullock, and that father took the trouble to 'stick' him and bleed him before he took the hide off, so as it shouldn't look dark.
Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870
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The strulbrug of Swift (and Swift, being his horrid creator, ought to understand his own horrid creation) was a wreck, a shell, that had been burned hollow, and cancered by the fierce furnace of life.
Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Has my wife-cursed with a cancered cat and a cancered husband-secretly arranged a two-for-one deal?
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wing of our cancered body politic, HYPOCRISY IS A SACRAMENT
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They didn’t know it had been taken off a cancered bullock, and that father took the trouble to
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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6. Between the doctors' appointments, the tests, the treatments and the cancer calls "Hey, I need to share some bad news with you ...", it's easy to get "cancered out."
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