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cark

verb
/kɑː(ɹ)k/

Etymology

From Middle English carken (“to be anxious, worry”, intransitive), from Old English *carcian ("to be sorrowful, worry"; found in becarcian (“to worry about, care for”)), a frequentative form of Old English carian (“to care”), equivalent to care + -k. The Middle English carken, also charken (“to load (sth.); to bear (crops); to burden, harass”, transitive), from Old Northern French carquier (“to load, burden”), from Latin carricāre (“to load”), related to Old French chargier (“to load”), is a different word often confused with the above.

  1. derived from carian — “to care”
  2. inherited from *carcian✻
  3. inherited from carken — “to be anxious, worry”

Definitions

  1. To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.

    • [W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?

  2. 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.
    • [W]e shall see how in morbid melancholy this sense of the unreality of things may become a carking pain, and even lead to suicide.

  3. To labor anxiously.

    • Why for sluggards cark and moil?
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A noxious or corroding worry.

      • His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.
      • Fling cark and care aside.
      • To all who love repose and shelter, Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion, and (in lieu of these) refreshing air, bright water, and green country, there is scarcely any valley left to compare with that of Springhaven.

    2. The state of being filled with worry.

    3. Pronunciation spelling of caulk.

    4. A village in Lower Holker parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref…

      A village in Lower Holker parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD3676).

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Derived

overcark

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA