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English Dictionary: Cark by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cark
v
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): perturb, unhinge, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorder
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cark \Cark\, n. [OE. cark, fr. a dialectic form of F. charge;
      cf. W. carc anxiety, care, Arm karg charge, burden. See
      {Charge}, and cf. {Cargo}.]
      A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.]
  
               His heavy head, devoid of careful cark.   --Spenser.
  
               Fling cark and care aside.                     --Motherwell.
  
               Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of
               fashion.                                                --R. D.
                                                                              Blackmore.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cark \Cark\, v. i.
      To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to
      worry or grieve. [R.] --Beau. & Fl.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cark \Cark\, v. t.
      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.
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