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canker
 
NOUN:Anything that is injurious, destructive, or fatal: bane, contagion, poison, toxin, venom, virus. See HELP.
VERB:1. To ruin utterly in character or quality: animalize, bastardize, bestialize, brutalize, corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, pervert, stain, vitiate, warp. See CLEAN, HELP. 2. To have a destructive effect on: envenom, infect, poison. Archaic : empoison. See HELP.
 
 
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