Thesaurus: cark

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1. n. A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.
2. v. i. To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve.
3. v. t. To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry.
4. v. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
5. 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. To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve. [R.] Beau. & fl. 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.
6. 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.
7. v disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed