Definitions for carking

carking cark·ing

Spelling: [kahr-king]
IPA: /ˈkɑr kɪŋ/

Carking is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in carking (acgiknr).

Definitions for carking

noun

  1. care or worry.

adjective

  1. distressful.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to worry.

Origin of carking

1300-50 (for gerund); 1555-65 (for current sense); Middle English; see cark, -ing2

Examples for carking

But at midnight I sprang up—no longer would I endure the carking suspense.

In truth, it was so; heavy with the weariness caused by carking care.

Alluding to its tenacity of life and the carking wear of care.

Memory worked with it—the carking memory of a failure of courage.

It was just something—a sense of the carking hanging over life, and now and then turning to a real mischance or a heartache.

He was sensible of a dull, carking shame, and yet was shameless.

And again Kirkwood sought Stryker, his carking query ready on his lips.

Distrustfulness, and carking cares, and contrivances for time to come.

Doubt—indefinite, carking doubt had taken possession of her.

Meantime, I was not to know the carking anxiety of the out-of-work.

Word Value for carking
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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