To consume or eat away at something, especially wood or plant tissue, as canker disease does.
Compound of 'canker' and 'eat', forming a verb that describes the process of canker consumption. A straightforward English formation using common word combination patterns.
Words like 'cankereat' remind us that English once had more descriptive verbs for specific processes—we've simplified to just 'damage,' but 'cankereat' really captures how a disease slowly eats through living wood.
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