Adjective racking has 1 sense
- racking, wrenching - causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain"
Antonym: painless (indirect, via painful)
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Verb rack has 11 senses
- single-foot, rack - go at a rack; "the horses single-footed"
--1 is one way to pace
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- rack - stretch to the limits; "rack one's brains"
--2 is one way to try, strain, stress
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- rack - put on a rack and pinion; "rack a camera"
--3 is one way to work, put to work
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- extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring - obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
--4 is one way to overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook
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- scud, rack - run before a gale
--5 is one way to sail
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- rack - fly in high wind
--6 is one way to fly, wing
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- rack - draw off from the lees; "rack wine"
--7 is one way to draw, take out
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- torment, torture, excruciate, rack - torment emotionally or mentally
--8 is one way to pain, anguish, hurt
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- rack - work on a rack; "rack leather"
--9 is one way to work, work on, process
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- rack - seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
--10 is one way to seize, prehend, clutch
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- rack - torture on the rack
--11 is one way to torture, excruciate, torment
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