cancerous
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6.0
- adjective
- /ˈkænsərəs/
- The American invasion of Iraq parallels the cancerous invasion of Jane's body, and her preoccupation with the war parallels her body's battle with cancer.
- cancerous growth
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Watch on YouTubeThe wide international community has let this kind of a cancerous extremism spread.
- The wide international community has let this kind of a cancerous extremism spread.
- Like it's, it almost becomes this cancerous growth as opposed to this, you know, beautiful sustaining force.
- And, you know, generations of these fish are kind of like metabolizing it, and it's turning into sort of a cancerous thing.
- The, the, the, the very fact that that so much if it's called critical theory, it's, it's a kind of reason become cancerous.
Examples
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"The slave trade is this pulsing, living, cancerous growth that is constantly changing its shape in response to the market," says Mr. Ayers, 63, who is a historian of the South and a former president of the university.
Academic text (2016) -
The wide international community has let this kind of a cancerous extremism spread.
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The buildings are like a cancerous growth down there.
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Like a cancerous growth, it gnaws at the younger generation, which by its very nature lacks experience and caution.
Academic text (2010) -
In a morally cancerous country, he would be re-elected anyway.
Blog text (19) -
Rep. Brad Sherman said the "cancerous" trade relationship with China is driven by enormous corporate power.
Blog text (14) -
So sinful members also make up a body of their own, a kind of cancerous growth of communal sin, a tumor to be excised by Christ the physician.
Academic text (2002) -
Now sludge rode the water like mutant plankton, and sewage collected along the banks like cancerous puff balls.
Fiction book (1999) -
A year before Khatami's victory, for example, Rezai warned an assembly of anti-riot force commanders in Tehran that "the cancerous tumor of liberalism is spreading in some corners of our country."
Academic text (2008) -
The cancerous influence of misinformation continues to grow in today's society.
Synonyms
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7.2
A dangerous disease or tumor that grows, spreads, and can threaten life
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9.1
Very harmful and able to cause disease that spreads quickly
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7.5
Having an abnormal growth of body cells or being overgrown and harmful
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9.1
Causing great harm or serious damage
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9.6
Damaged inside and slowly spreading to destroy nearby parts
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9.9
Relating to a cancer that begins in the thin cells covering organs and skin
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Etymology
Cancerous comes from the same root as cancer and the star sign Cancer, which is a 'crab'. Because a crab seems to reach outward, cancerous is used for things that spread and cause harm, like corruption or bad feelings that eat away at something.