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rack

English

  1. 🔊 a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
  2. 🔊 a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
  3. 🔊 a support for displaying various articles
    “the newspapers were arranged on a rack”
  4. 🔊 framework for holding objects
  5. 🔊 an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
  6. 🔊 rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
  7. 🔊 the destruction or collapse of something
    “wrack and ruin”
  8. 🔊 torture on the rack
  9. 🔊 seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
  10. 🔊 work on a rack
    “rack leather”
  11. 🔊 stretch to the limits
    “rack one's brains”
  12. 🔊 draw off from the lees
    “rack wine”
  13. 🔊 fly in high wind
  14. 🔊 put on a rack and pinion
    “rack a camera”
  15. 🔊 run before a gale
  16. 🔊 go at a rack
    “the horses single-footed”
  17. 🔊 obtain by coercion or intimidation
    “They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss”
  18. 🔊 torment emotionally or mentally

Spanish

  1. 🔊 cremallera rack
  2. 🔊 entrepaso rack
  3. 🔊 potro rack
  4. 🔊 rack rack
  5. 🔊 transportín rack
  6. 🔊 desliar to rack

Similar words

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