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- pronunciation:
- raek
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Word Builder
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a frame or structure used to hold or display various items.
a wine racka dress rack
- synonyms:
- stand
- similar words:
- frame, framework, holder, shelves, skeleton, stretcher, tree, trestle, valet
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| definition 2: |
in the game of pool or billiards, a triangular frame used to position the balls, or the balls themselves after being placed in such a position.
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| definition 3: |
a machine bar with teeth that engage another toothed part such as a gearwheel.
- similar words:
- cog, cogwheel, gear, gearwheel
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| definition 4: |
formerly, an instrument of torture on which the victim's limbs were pinned and slowly stretched.
- similar words:
- stretcher
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| definition 5: |
something that causes great mental or physical agony, or the agony it causes; extreme stress.
- synonyms:
- agony, anguish, hell, torment, torture
- similar words:
- affliction, distress, fire, ordeal, pain, plague, scourge, suffering, tribulation, woe
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| related words: |
torture |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
racks, racking, racked |
| definition 1: |
to torture or torment, esp. by means of interrogation or on a rack.
The heretic was racked.Pain racked his body.- synonyms:
- agonize, torment, torture
- similar words:
- agonize, anguish, crucify, grill, harrow, interrogate, outrage, persecute
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| definition 2: |
to cause stress or strain to.
She racked her brains trying to remember.- synonyms:
- agonize, harrow, rend, strain, wrench
- similar words:
- afflict, distress, sprain, stress, stretch, twist, wring
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| definition 3: |
to place in or on a rack.
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| definition 4: |
in pool or billiards, to collect and position (the balls) in a triangular frame.
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| related words: |
plague, strain, torment, wring |
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Word Builder: kinds of rack
- bike rack:
a rack for holding bicycles, usually outside.
- dish rack:
a rack for holding dishes while they dry.
- spice rack:
a rack for holding containers of spices.
- wine rack:
a rack for holding bottles of wine.
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