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How to pronounce rack
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What does rack mean?
nounA series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
“Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack, / Where men enforced do speak anything.”
verbTo place in or hang on a rack.
To torture (someone) on the rack.
“He was racked and miserably tormented.”
To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
“Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair.”
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