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cark

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4 lettersPronunciation /kɑː(ɹ)k/Part of speech verbSorted ackrStarts with CEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Why for sluggards cark and moil?

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