RACK
Definition:
- [noun] framework for holding objects
- [noun] rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- [noun] the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin"
- [noun] an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
Synonyms: wheel
- [noun] a support for displaying various articles; "the newspapers were arranged on a rack"
Synonyms: stand
- [noun] a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
Synonyms: single-foot
- [verb] go at a rack; "the horses single-footed"
Synonyms: single-foot
- [verb] stretch to the limits; "rack one's brains"
- [verb] put on a rack and pinion; "rack a camera"
- [verb] 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"
Synonyms: extort, squeeze, gouge, wring
- [verb] run before a gale
Synonyms: scud
- [verb] fly in high wind
- [verb] draw off from the lees; "rack wine"
- [verb] torment emotionally or mentally
Synonyms: torment, torture, excruciate
- [verb] work on a rack; "rack leather"
- [verb] seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- [verb] torture on the rack
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