to rack
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7.5
- verb
- /ræk/
:
atormentar
- I was racking my brain to figure out why, and I think it's because you've taken everything from me.
- rack one's brains
- racked by violence
- racked by conflict
And he was the same Joss who's racked by self doubt, just like always.
- And he was the same Joss who's racked by self doubt, just like always.
- You know, I, I believe so. I just can't, I, I was racking my brain for it.
- Strikes, bombings, race riots and government crackdowns are racking the country.
- Yeah, I think that's also a, a thing with like, and I'm trying to rack my brain for like, what's a cheating situation where I'd possibly stay?
- What happens to these people who are just now racked with anxiety because they don't believe in their God and they don't believe in their government?
Examples
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She was racked with guilt after lying to her best friend.
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Racking my brains for things to say to the lawyer that hadn't been said already.
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Then the friend would shut up and rack his brains for a different subject.
Fiction book (1998) -
I'm racking my brain as well.
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I keep racking my brain, going over these unsolved murder cases.
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Marie felt she had made a horrible mistake and racked her brains about how she could make things right again.
Fiction book (1995) -
OK, we've racked our brains about this.
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Well, since then, we physicists have been racking our brains asking ourselves the question, what should we have said?
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John's devastated, racked with remorse and totally cut off from his friends.
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What happens to these people who are just now racked with anxiety because they don't believe in their God and they don't believe in their government?
Synonyms
582
5.7
To cause someone to feel severe physical or emotional pain, often on purpose
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7.2
To cause someone to feel great physical or mental pain
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8.7
To severely damage something so it cannot be used
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9.9
To cause someone very great physical or mental pain
Antonyms
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.0
A round gear and a flat bar with teeth that change turning into straight movement
- Archaic
1
9.0
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 Tormented
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rack meaning to torment comes from the same image as the torture rack, the idea of stretch ('to stretch') causing severe pain or strain. So to be racked is to be put under great physical or mental pain or stress.