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cark
/kɑː(ɹ)k/
verb 4noun 2name 1
Collocations
3VERB + CARK
fling
CARK + NOUN
fashion
ADV.
aside
Definitions
verb
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?
noun
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.
2
The state of being filled with worry.
verb
1
Pronunciation spelling of caulk.
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[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
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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.
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[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.
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His heauie head, deuoide of carefull carke, / Whose sences all were straight benumbd and starke.
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Fling cark and care aside.
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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 t
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