What is the meaning of cancerous?

adjective

  • Relating to or affected with cancer.
    • usage: "a cancerous growth"
  • Like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads.
    • usage: "remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"
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