rack

Meanings

• framework for holding objects
• rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
• the destruction or collapse of something
  • "wrack and ruin"
• an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
• a support for displaying various articles
  • "the newspapers were arranged on a rack"
• a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
• a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
• go at a rack
• stretch to the limits
  • "rack one's brains"
• put on a rack and pinion
  • "rack a camera"
• obtain by coercion or intimidation
• run before a gale
• fly in high wind
• draw off from the lees
  • "rack wine"
• torment emotionally or mentally
• work on a rack
  • "rack leather"
• seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
• torture on the rack

Synonyms

excruciate, extort, gouge, scud, single-foot, squeeze, stand, torment, torture, wheel, wrack, wring