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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cark .
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Examples
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So far, the only thing I have put off buying is a new electric toothbrush to replace the one that carked it a while back.
single gal seeks stimulation Another Outspoken Female 2009
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We use no pestacides; never did on our lemon tree, but it carked it around two months ago and the new sapling we planted has suffered transplant stress, dropping its leaves, almost ready to meet its maker too!!
Today's Garden 2009
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So far, the only thing I have put off buying is a new electric toothbrush to replace the one that carked it a while back.
Archive 2009-02-01 Another Outspoken Female 2009
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The gums were full of budgies, skawking and whistling their parodies of songbirds; finches wheeled from branch to branch; two sulphur-crested cockatoos sat with their heads to one side watching her progress with twinkling eyes; willy-wagtails fossicked in the dirt for ants, their absurd rumps bobbing; crows carked eternally and mournfully.
The Thorn Birds McCullough, Colleen 1977
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The sun was yet so pale a buckler of silver through the still white mists that not a cord or timber cast a shadow; and only Abel Keeling's face and hands were black, carked and cinder-black from exposure to his pitiless rays.
Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917
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He will be 33 in March, the age Jesus was supposed to have carked it.
The Guardian World News Helen Pidd 2011
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When I told him I hadn't been frightened at all, and was simply trying to figure out what I would say to the papers if he carked it in my bed, he laughed.
Film | guardian.co.uk Germaine Greer 2010
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When I told him I hadn't been frightened at all, and was simply trying to figure out what I would say to the papers if he carked it in my bed, he laughed.
Film | guardian.co.uk Germaine Greer 2010
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When I told him I hadn't been frightened at all, and was simply trying to figure out what I would say to the papers if he carked it in my bed, he laughed.
The Guardian World News Germaine Greer 2010
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"When I told him I hadn't been frightened at all and was simply trying to figure out what I would say to the papers if he carked it in my bed, he laughed," she said.
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