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racking [rak-ing]
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rack [rak]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: torture; strain
Synonyms: afflict, agonize, crucify, distress, excruciate, force, harass, harrow, martyr, oppress, pain, persecute, pull, shake, stress, stretch, tear, torment, try, wrench, wring
Notes: rack is the linear gear and pinion is the circular gear in a mechanism
rack is destruction and ruin is destitution; in rack and ruin, rack is a variation of wrack and wreck
Antonyms: please, pleasure, soothe
Main Entry: afflict
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cause or become hurt
Synonyms: agonize, annoy, beset, bother, burden, crucify, distress, grieve, harass, harrow, harry, irk, lacerate, martyr, oppress, pain, pester, plague, press, rack, smite, strike, torment, torture, trouble, try, vex, worry, wound
Antonyms: aid, comfort, help, solace, stay away from, take care of
Main Entry: agonize
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: suffer or cause another to suffer
Synonyms: afflict, bleed, carry on, crucify, distress, disturb, eat heart out, excruciate, harrow, hurt, labor, lament, martyr, pain, rack, sing the blues, squirm, stew over, strain, strive, struggle, take it badly, torment, torture, try, wince, worry, writhe
Antonyms: not worry
Main Entry: agonizing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult and painful, suffering
Synonyms: disturbing, excruciating, extreme, fierce, harrowing, intense, racking, struggling, tearing, tormenting, tortuous, torturing, vehement, violent
Main Entry: crucify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: execute; torture near to death
Synonyms: excruciate, hang, harrow, kill, martyr, martyrize, nail to cross, persecute, rack, torment, torture
Antonyms: exalt
Main Entry: distress
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: worry, upset
Synonyms: afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, be on one's case, bother, break, bug, burn up, depress, desolate, discombobulate, disquiet, disturb, do a number on, dog*, eat*, get to, get*, give a hard time, grieve, harass, harry, hound, hurt, injure, irk, irritate, make it tough for, miff, nag, needle, nit-pick, oppress, pain, peeve, perplex, pester, pick on, plague, push, push buttons, rack, sadden, strain, strap, stress, tick off, torment, torture, trouble, try, vex, weigh, wound
Antonyms: assist, calm, comfort, help, soothe
Main Entry: excruciating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: torturous, painful
Synonyms: acute, agonizing, burning, chastening, consuming, exquisite, extreme, grueling, harrowing, insufferable, intense, piercing, punishing, racking, rending, searing, severe, sharp, shooting, stabbing, tearing, tormenting, torturesome, torturing, unbearable, unendurable, violent
Antonyms: bearable, endurable, helpful, pleasant, pleasing, soothing
Main Entry: gallop
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bolt, race with slight jumping motion
Synonyms: amble, canter, career, course, dart, dash, fly, hasten, hurdle, hurry, jump, leap, lope, pace, rack, run, rush, shoot, speed, spring, sprint, stride, tear along, trot, zoom
Main Entry: grueling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult, taxing
Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, brutal, chastening, crushing, demanding, excruciating, exhausting, fatiguing, fierce, grinding, hairy*, hard, harsh, heavy*, laborious, punishing, racking, severe, stiff, strenuous, tiring, torturous, trying
Antonyms: easy, facile
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