"cancerate" meaning in English

See cancerate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: cancerates [present, singular, third-person], cancerating [participle, present], cancerated [participle, past], cancerated [past]
Etymology: From Latin cancerātus (“eaten by a cancer”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|cancerātus||eaten by a cancer}} Latin cancerātus (“eaten by a cancer”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} cancerate (third-person singular simple present cancerates, present participle cancerating, simple past and past participle cancerated)
  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow into a cancer; to become cancerous. Tags: intransitive, obsolete
    Sense id: en-cancerate-en-verb-NR6pPESC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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