to cark

Examples

• All

• He's carked!

  Meet the Feebles (1989)

• I really ought to print those photos from that holiday so they don't end up only on Facebook after my laptop dies one day in the future and all full-resolution versions of them cark it too...

  Blog text (34)

• I wasn't any thinking about any more than Mozart might have been as he was carking it before he was chucked in a rotten old grave.

• The constant pressure of work would cark him if he didn't learn to manage stress.

• She felt her worries cark her every time she thought about the upcoming exam.

• Financial problems can cark anyone who is unprepared for unexpected expenses.

Synonyms

W

to worry

vsto cark

∞ 1.0

To make someone feel nervous or upset about possible problems

is an older word that means causing such anxious feelings

H

to haunt

vsto cark

268 4.9

To keep appearing in someone's mind and cause worry

is an older term covering single or repeated causes of unease

T

to trouble

vsto cark

174 1.8

To cause someone worry or bother

is an older term focusing on mental unease rather than practical problems

D

to disturb

vsto cark

153 2.5

Make someone feel deeply worried or upset

is an older term meaning to cause mental unease or worry

P

to perturb

vsto cark

7 7.0

To make someone feel worried or uneasy

is an archaic form used broadly for causing worry

N

to nag

vsto cark

5 3.9

To feel a small, constant worry that bothers you

is the archaic term used for any mental disturbance, not only repetition

D

to disquiet

vsto cark

1 7.3

To make someone feel worried or uneasy

is the older expression for general emotional unease

U

to unhinge

vsto cark

1 7.9

To make someone very upset or unable to think clearly

is more archaic and milder, meaning general unease rather than breakdown

How Worried

to torment

• NSFW

107 7.2

to distress

32 4.1

to cark

• Archaic

1 9.9

to bother

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology