If you are racked with pain or you feel nerve-racked, you are feeling asif you were being stretched on that Medieval instrument of torture, therack. You rack your brains when you stretch them vigorously to searchout the truth like a torturer. “Wrack” has to do with ruinous accidents,so if the stock market is wracked by rumors of imminent recession, it’swrecked. If things are wrecked, they go to “wrack and ruin.”
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