rack
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- noun
- /ræk/
- NSFW
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potro de tortura
- That man... That swine put my mother on the rack, tortured her until she prayed for death.
Putin tried to take Greiner to the rack and is rejected.
- Putin tried to take Greiner to the rack and is rejected.
- It's a custom made basically a torture rack that'll fit Haiti's Canyon, I think.
- Others are shackled, trust up, or even tied on a rack.
- And so there is this example of the wise man, the sage, the person who possesses all of the virtues, and he was on the rack being tortured, and he's still happy.
- They put you on a rack there, they won't promote you.
Examples
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I can handle several hours on the rack to extricate myself from this disgusting display.
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Is that how you ended up in the rack with him in the first place?
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Quick, get him on the rack.
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Some patients call it the rack.
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See that she is found before the day is out, or you'll join your friend here on the rack!
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" Folks in the East End aim to bring back the rack and burning irons."
Fiction book (1994) -
Also, the rack torture they did to him before so he confessed he tried to poison Queen Bess.
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He's got some poor guy spread-eagle on the rack trying to force him to confess to poaching so that mordred can rip off his land.
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The prisoner was stretched painfully on the rack as a method of torture during the dark ages.
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Historical accounts describe how victims were placed on the rack to extract confessions under duress.
Synonyms
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A metal device used in the past to crush or heat the foot to cause pain
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An iron box shaped like a person with spikes inside that causes great pain or death
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A device used to hurt people by crushing the thumb with a tightened screw
A device used to punish people for crimes
A metal band placed around the neck used to kill someone by choking
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A round gear and a flat bar with teeth that change turning into straight movement
- Archaic
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A very high amount people must pay to live in a house or use land that is unfair
- Specialized
A railway for steep hills where a gear on the train fits a central toothed rail to climb safely
How Painful
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- Offensive
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- Archaic
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Rack for the torture device gets its name from the idea of stretch ('to stretch'), since the machine pulled the body apart to cause pain. That is why to be put on the rack means to be stretched or tortured.