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单词 cark
释义 cark
I. \ˈkärk\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English carken, literally, to load, burden, from Old North French carquier, from Late Latin carricare — more at charge
transitive verb
: to burden with care or anxiety : vex, worry, trouble
 < fate had not smiled on him … he was beset by carking troubles and anxieties — Max Beerbohm >
intransitive verb
1. : to be anxious or troubled : fret
 < a covetous man … carking about his bags — Isaac Barrow >
2. : to labor anxiously
 < why for sluggards cark and moil? — Charles Kingsley >
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, literally, load, burden, from Old North French carque, from carquier, v.
1. : something that burdens the spirit : trouble
 < its artless advocacy of freedom from cark and care — Harper's >
2. : a troubled state of mind : distress
 < by cark and care deranged — Robert Browning >
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