cark Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
    perturb; disquiet; distract; trouble; disorder; unhinge.
    • She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill

WordNet

Cark noun
Etymology
OE. cark, fr. a dialectic form of F. charge; cf. W. carc anxiety, care, Arm karg charge, burden. See Charge, and cf. Cargo.
Definitions
  1. 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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve. R. Beau. & fl.
Cark transitive verb
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913