Meaning

(obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles..

Definitions by Sense

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.
6. Pronunciation spelling of caulk.

Example Sentences

[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?

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.

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

Why for sluggards cark and moil?

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.

Word Forms

• carks
• carking
• carked

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When Should You Use Cark?

Use cark when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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