CARK

perturb, unhinge, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorder

(verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; “She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

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

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

(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.

(intransitive) To labor anxiously.

Noun

cark (plural carks)

(obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.

(obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.

Etymology 2

Verb

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

Eye dialect spelling of caulk.

Etymology 3

Verb

cark

See cark it.

Anagrams

• RACK, rack

Source: Wiktionary


Cark, n. Etym: [OE. cark, fr. a dialectic form of F. charge; cf. W. carc anxiety, care, Arm karg charge, burden. See Charge, and cf. Cargo.]

Definition: A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.] His heavy head, devoid of careful cark. Spenser. Fling cark and care aside. Motherwell. Ereedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion. R. D. Blackmore.

Cark, v. i.

Definition: To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve. [R.] Beau. & fl.

Cark, v. t.

Definition: To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry. [R.] Nor can a man, independently . . . of God's blessing, care and cark himself one penny richer. South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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