Burdened with cares; worried, anxious, or worn out from stress and troubles.
Past tense and past participle of 'cark,' combined with the adjective-forming function of past participles in English. Reflects the accumulated weight of sustained worry.
The phrase 'carked out' or 'cark it' in Australian slang has transformed this old worry-word into slang for dying—sometimes linguistic evolution is dark humor!
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