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carked

carked is the simple past and past participle of cark.

Meaning of cark

Verb

cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carking, simple past and past participle carked)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) 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?1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[Miscellany Fables.] Fab[le] CCCLXXXIII. A Spider and the Gout [Reflexion].”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC...
  2. (intransitive, obsolete, transitive) 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.1831, Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible, Comment on 2 Timothy 2: 22
  3. (archaic, intransitive) To labor anxiously.
    • Why for sluggards cark and moil?1849, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke's Song

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Phrases with carked

Questions about carked

What is carked the simple past and past participle of?
Carked is the simple past and past participle of cark.

Words near carked in the dictionary

  1. cark it
  2. carkanet
  3. carkanets
  4. carkase
  5. carkases
  6. carked
  7. carked it
  8. carkee
  9. carkey
  10. carkeys
  11. carkeyses

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