rack

rack is a 4-letter English word with 43 senses as noun, intransitive verb, verb, transitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Same as Arrack. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 43 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Same as Arrack.
2. noun. The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
3. noun. A wreck; destruction.
4. noun. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
5. intransitive verb. To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
6. verb. To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
7. noun. A fast amble.
8. transitive verb. To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
9. adjective. An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
10. adjective. An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.
11. adjective. An instrument for bending a bow.
12. adjective. A grate on which bacon is laid.
13. adjective. A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.
14. adjective. A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.
15. adjective. A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.
16. adjective. A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
17. adjective. A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.
18. adjective. A distaff.
19. adjective. A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.
20. adjective. That which is extorted; exaction.
21. transitive verb. To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.
22. transitive verb. To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
23. transitive verb. To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
24. transitive verb. To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.
25. transitive verb. To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
26. noun. a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
27. noun. a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
28. noun. a support for displaying various articles

    "the newspapers were arranged on a rack"

    Synonyms: stand

29. noun. framework for holding objects
30. noun. an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims

    Synonyms: wheel

31. noun. the destruction or collapse of something

    "wrack and ruin"

    Synonyms: wrack

32. noun. rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
33. verb. torture on the rack
34. verb. seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
35. verb. work on a rack

    "rack leather"

36. verb. stretch to the limits

    "rack one's brains"

37. verb. torment emotionally or mentally

    Synonyms: excruciate, torment, torture

38. verb. draw off from the lees

    "rack wine"

39. verb. fly in high wind
40. verb. run before a gale

    Synonyms: scud

41. verb. go at a rack

    "the horses single-footed"

42. verb. obtain by coercion or intimidation

    "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"

    "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

    Synonyms: extort, gouge, squeeze, wring

43. verb. put on a rack and pinion

    "rack a camera"

Synonyms

stand, wheel, wrack, excruciate, torment, torture, scud, extort, gouge, squeeze, wring

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rack:

cark

Common word forms

racks, racked, racker, rackful, racking, rackless

Words from these letters

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