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name
A village in Lower Holker parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD3676).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A noxious or corroding worry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
The state of being filled with worry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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verb
To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete
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verb
To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, obsolete, transitive
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verb
To labor anxiously.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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verb
Pronunciation spelling of caulk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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verb
disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: perturb, unhinge, disquiet, trouble, distract, disorder
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Broader terms: disturb, upset, trouble
Narrower terms: worry, vex
History
From Middle English cark, kark (“worry”), from Old English carc (“sorrow, worry”).
From Middle English carken (“to be anxious, worry”, intransitive), from Old English *carcian ("to be sorrowful, worry"; found in becarcian (“to worry about, care for”)), a frequentative form of Old English carian (“to care”), equivalent to care + -k. The Middle English carken, also charken (“to load (sth.); to bear (crops); to burden, harass”, transitive), from Old Northern French carquier (“to load, burden”), from Latin carricāre (“to load”), related to Old French chargier (“to load”), is a different word often confused with the above.
From caulk.
