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Results for: "rack"

Translating from English to Chinese Simplified

Translations:

rack — series of shelves
→ 架子 (jiàzi)
rack — torture device
→ 刑架 (xíngjià)

More translations:

rack
→ 架, 行李架
rack
→ 绞尽脑汁
rack
→ 陷于毁灭

English definitions WordNet

NOUN 7

  1. framework for holding objects

  2. rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton

  3. the destruction or collapse of something

    • “wrack and ruin”
    Synonymswrack
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  1. an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims

    Synonymswheel

  2. a support for displaying various articles

    • “the newspapers were arranged on a rack”
    Synonymsstand

  3. a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body

  4. a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately

    Synonymssingle-foot

VERB 11

  1. go at a rack

    • “the horses single-footed”
    Synonymssingle-foot

  2. stretch to the limits

    • “rack one's brains”

  3. put on a rack and pinion

    • “rack a camera”
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  1. 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”
    Synonymsextortsqueezegougewring

  2. run before a gale

    Synonymsscud

  3. fly in high wind

  4. draw off from the lees

    • “rack wine”

  5. torment emotionally or mentally

    Synonymstormenttortureexcruciate

  6. work on a rack

    • “rack leather”

  7. seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block

  8. torture on the rack