rack vs wrack :

rack or wrack

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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Definitions

  • 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
  • n  an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
  • n  a support for displaying various articles
    the newspapers were arranged on a rack
  • 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
  • v  go at a rack
  • 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
  • v  run before a gale
  • v  fly in high wind
  • v  draw off from the lees
    rack wine
  • v  torment emotionally or mentally
  • 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

  • n  dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
  • n  the destruction or collapse of something
    wrack and ruin
  • n  growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
  • v  smash or break forcefully
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    June 12, 2013 - BikeRadar

  • Fighters in Nigeria attack school, kill 9 pupils
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    June 18, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • Fighters in Nigeria attack school, kill 9 pupils
    Suspected Islamic militants have opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the country's troubled northeast, killing at least nine pupils in the latest violence to wrack the volatile region, ...
    June 18, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News