cancer

Definitioner

1. Substantiv

   A serious disease in which body cells grow out of control.

   Exempel

   • Cancer is one of the main causes of death.
   • Doctors found cancer early and treated it.
   ≈malignancy
2. Substantiv

   Something bad that spreads and harms everything around it.

   Exempel

   • He said corruption was a cancer in the government.
   • Hate is a cancer that harms a whole town.
   ≈growth≈lichen
3. Adjektiv

   In slang, extremely unpleasant and annoying.

   Exempel

   • That printer is absolute cancer to deal with.
   • The constant delays were cancer for the project.
   ≈cancerous≈AIDS