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adjective Archaic.

distressful.

Origin:
1300–50 (for gerund); 1555–65 (for current sense); Middle English; see cark, -ing²

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noun

care or worry.

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to worry.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English carken to be anxious, Old English becarcian, apparently derivative of car- (base of caru care) + -k suffix

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cark¹ (kɑːk)

—n, —vb
	worry worry worry an archaic word for worry

[C13 carken to burden, from Old Northern French carquier, from Late Latin carricāre to load]

cark² (kɑːk)

—vb
	slang (Austral) (intr) to break down; die

[perhaps from the cry of the crow, as a carrion feeding bird]

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Example sentences

He must meet affliction in the world, but he need not have anxiety and carking care.

It is the hobby that then rescues the mind from its carking activities.

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"There are women in middle life, whose days are crowded with practical duties, physical strain, and moral responsibility ... they fail to see that some use of the mind, in solid reading or in study, would refresh them by its contrast with carking cares, and would prepare interest and pleasure for their later years. Such women often sink into depression, as their cares fall away from them, and many even become insane. They are mentally starved to death."

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