Sekirov Dictionary

cark

/kɑː(ɹ)k/

verb 3
noun 2
forms 3

verb3

(no longer used) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
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(no longer used) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
- Carnal pleasures are the sins of youth: ambition and the love of power, the sins of middle age: covetousness and carking cares, the crimes of old age. — 1831
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(no longer used) To labor anxiously.
- Why for sluggards cark and moil? — 1849

noun2

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(no longer used) A noxious or corroding worry.
- His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke. — 1590
(no longer used) The state of being filled with worry.

forms

carked · carking · carks

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