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pain-racked

adj

Etymology

Variant of “racked with pain”, in sense rack (“suffer pain, torture”); see usage notes for rack.

Definitions

  1. Racked with pain, in pain, suffering.

    • ’Tis thine to ease the pain-racked breast, With doubts, with trembling fear o’erwhelm’d
    • Quieter and yet more quiet grew the sea, quiet as the soft mist that brooded on her bosom, and covered up her troubling, as the illusive wreaths of sleep brood upon a pain-racked mind, causing it to forget its sorrow.
    • It’s designed to apply the natural laws of foot motion to pain-racked feet. … Order today and say goodbye forever to sore, tired, pain-racked feet!

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA