Sore vs Canker - What's the difference?
sore | canker |
Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
* Tillotson
Dire; distressing.
(informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
(obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
(lb) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
Sorely.
*1919 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs),
*:[… they] were often sore pressed to follow the trail at all, and at best were so delayed that in the afternoon of the second day, they still had not overhauled the fugitive.
An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
* Sir Walter Scott
A group of ducks on land. (See also: sord).
A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
A young buck in its fourth year.
mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait in the animal.
(botany) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
* Temple
A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
* Shakespeare
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae .
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; usually resulting from neglected thrush.
To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
* 1849 , , In Memoriam , 26:
To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
As nouns the difference between sore and canker
is that sore is while canker is (botany) a plant disease marked by gradual decay.As a verb canker is
to affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.sore
English
(wikipedia sore)Adjective
(er)- Her feet were sore from walking so far.
- Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
- The school was in sore need of textbooks, theirs having been ruined in the flood.
- Joe was sore at Bob for beating him at checkers.
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Derived terms
* sight for sore eyes * sorely * soreness * sore pointAdverb
(-)Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Noun
(en noun)- They put ointment and a bandage on the sore .
- I see plainly where his sore lies.
Verb
Derived terms
* soringSee also
* blister * lesion * ulcerAnagrams
* ----canker
English
Noun
- the cankers of envy and faction
- To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, / And plant this thorn, this canker , Bolingbroke.
Synonyms
* water canker, canker of the mouth, noma * (bird disease) avian trichomoniasis, roup * (hawk disease) frounceVerb
(en verb)- Still onward winds the dreary way; / I with it; for I long to prove / No lapse of moons can canker Love, / Whatever fickle tongues may say.