Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the qualities of a chancre; ulcerous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Of the nature of a chancre; having chancre.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Of the nature of a
chancre ; affected by chancre.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or having chancres
Etymologies
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Compare French chancreux.
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Examples
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And now we find that the denizens of this sewer want us to actually pay billions and trillions more to keep this chancrous old collection of corruption afloat?
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And now we find that the denizens of this sewer want us to actually pay billions and trillions more to keep this chancrous old collection of corruption afloat?
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