| Main Entry: | canker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blistered infection |
Synonyms: |
bane, blight, blister, boil, cancer, corrosion, corruption, lesion, rot, scourge, smutch, sore, ulcer |
| Main Entry: | canker |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blight, corrupt |
Synonyms: |
animalize, bestialize, consume, corrode, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, embitter, envenom, inflict, pervert, poison, pollute, rot, ruin, scourge, sore, stain, ulcer, vitiate |
| Main Entry: | blight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease; plague |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bane, blot on the landscape, canker, contamination, corruption, curse, decay, dump, evil, eyesore, fungus, infestation, mildew, pest, pestilence, pollution, rot, scourge, sight, withering, woe |
Antonyms: |
blessing, boon, health, prosperity |
| Main Entry: | blister |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swelling |
Synonyms: |
abscess, blain, bleb, boil, bubble, bulla, burn, canker, carbuncle, cyst, furuncle, pimple, pustule, sac, sore, ulcer, vesication, vesicle, wale, weal, welt, wheal |
| Main Entry: | cancer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | malignant growth |
Synonyms: |
C, big C, canker, carcinoma, corruption, disease, long illness, malignancy, sickness, tumor |
Antonyms: |
benignity |
| Main Entry: | corrode |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wear away; eat away |
Synonyms: |
bite, canker, consume, corrupt, destroy, deteriorate, erode, gnaw, impair, oxidize, rot, rust, scour, waste |
Antonyms: |
aid, build, fortify, help |
| Main Entry: | degrade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shame, humiliate |
Synonyms: |
abase, belittle, bemean, bench, break, bump, bust, canker, cast down, cheapen, corrupt, cut down to size, debase, debauch, declass, decry, degenerate, demean, demote, depose, deprave, derogate, deteriorate, detract, diminish, disbar, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparage, downgrade, humble, impair, injure, lessen, lower, mudsling, pan, pervert, put down, reduce, rule out, run down, shoot down, sink, slam, take down a peg, take down, tear down, vitiate, weaken |
Antonyms: |
admire, approve, elevate, honor, promote, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | disease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ailment, affliction |
Synonyms: |
ache, affection, attack, blight, breakdown, bug*, cancer, canker, collapse, complaint, condition, contagion, contamination, convulsions, debility, decrepitude, defect, disorder, distemper, endemic, epidemic, feebleness, fever, fit, flu, hemorrhage, ill health, illness, indisposition, infection, infirmity, inflammation, malady, misery, pathosis, plague, seizure, sickliness, sickness, spell, stroke, syndrome, temperature, unhealthiness, unsoundness, upset, virus, visitation |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning illness means sickness or poor health, while a disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
Antonyms: |
health |
| Main Entry: | fester |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intensify; become inflamed |
Synonyms: |
aggravate, blister, canker, chafe, decay, gall, gather, irk, maturate, putrefy, rankle, rot, smolder, suppurate, ulcer, ulcerate |
Antonyms: |
dissipate, get better, heal, lessen |
| Main Entry: | rot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corrosion, disintegration |
Synonyms: |
blight, canker, decay, decomposition, deterioration, mold, putrefaction, putrescence |
Antonyms: |
building, development, growth |