Cark

Quick meaning: Cark is a verb meaning Pronunciation spelling of caulk.

Meaning

Pronunciation spelling of caulk.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
2. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To labor anxiously.
4. (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
5. (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.

Example Sentences

Fling cark and care aside.

Why for sluggards cark and moil?

His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.

[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.

Word Forms

• carks
• carking
• carked

Synonyms for cark

Depending on context, synonyms include disquiet, trouble, perturb, disorder, distract, unhinge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trouble, perturb, disquiet, disorder, distract, unhinge.

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