rack

Nouns

• (n) framework for holding objects
• (n) rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
• (n) the destruction or collapse of something
  • wrack and ruin
  wrack,
• (n) an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims wheel,
• (n) a support for displaying various articles
  • the newspapers were arranged on a rack
  stand,
• (n) a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
• (n) a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately single-foot,

Verbs

• (v) go at a rack
  • the horses single-footed
  single-foot,
• (v) stretch to the limits
  • rack one's brains
• (v) put on a rack and pinion
  • rack a camera
• (v) 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
  extort, gouge, wring, squeeze,
• (v) run before a gale scud,
• (v) fly in high wind
• (v) draw off from the lees
  • rack wine
• (v) torment emotionally or mentally excruciate, torment, torture,
• (v) work on a rack
  • rack leather
• (v) seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
• (v) torture on the rack

Synonyms

Words of close approximity