SkyfireDict

racking   (TTS Sound)

The verb rack has 11 senses

• single-foot, rack -- (go at a rack; "the horses single-footed")


• rack -- (stretch to the limits; "rack one's brains")


• rack -- (put on a rack and pinion; "rack a camera")


• 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")


• scud, rack -- (run before a gale)


• rack -- (fly in high wind)


• rack -- (draw off from the lees; "rack wine")


• torment, torture, excruciate, rack -- (torment emotionally or mentally)


• rack -- (work on a rack; "rack leather")


• rack -- (seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block)


• rack -- (torture on the rack)

The adj racking has 1 sense

• racking, wrenching -- (causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain")