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Racking meaning in English
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Racking
see synonyms of rackingAdjective
1. racking, wrenching
causing great physical or mental suffering
Example Sentences:'a wrenching pain'
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Racking
see synonyms of rackingadjective
1.
causing or indicating mental suffering
She was now shaking with long, racking sobs.
2.
causing or indicating physical suffering
His racking cough was gone.
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Racking
see synonyms of rackingn.
1.
a. A framework or stand in or on which to hold, hang, or display various articles: a trophy rack; a rack for baseball bats in the dugout; a drying rack for laundry.
b. Games A triangular frame for arranging billiard or pool balls at the start of a game.
c. A receptacle for livestock feed.
d. A frame for holding bombs in an aircraft.
2. Slang
a. A bunk or bed.
b. Sleep: tried to get some rack.
3. A toothed bar that meshes with a gearwheel, pinion, or other toothed machine part.
4.
a. A state of intense anguish.
b. A cause of intense anguish.
5. An instrument of torture on which the victim's body was stretched.
6. A pair of antlers.
7. Vulgar Slang A woman's breasts.
tr.v. racked, rack·ing, racks
1. To place (billiard balls, for example) in a rack.
2. also wrack To cause great physical or mental suffering to: Pain racked his entire body. See Synonyms at afflict.
3. To torture by means of the rack.
n.
1.
a. Wreckage, especially of a ship cast ashore.
b. Chiefly British Violent destruction of a building or vehicle.
2.
a. Seaweed that has been cast ashore or dried.
b. Any of various brown algae, especially rockweed or kelp.
v. wracked, wrack·ing, wracks also racked or rack·ing or racks
v.tr.
To cause the ruin of; wreck.
v.intr.
To be wrecked.
n.
A fast, flashy, four-beat gait of a horse in which each foot touches the ground separately and at equal intervals.
intr.v. racked, rack·ing, racks
To go or move at a rack.
n. & v.
tr.v. racked, rack·ing, racks
To drain (wine or cider) from the dregs.
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