Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pain-racked

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables: pain-racked
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Racked with pain, in pain, suffering.

Example Sentences

"’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!"

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

more pain-racked (comparative) most pain-racked (superlative) pain-wracked (alternative)

Phrases

nerve-racking storm-wracked

Frequently Paired Words

nerve-racking storm-wracked

Questions

What does pain-racked mean?: Racked with pain, in pain, suffering.
Where does pain-racked come from?: Variant of “racked with pain”, in sense rack (“suffer pain, torture”); see usage notes for rack.

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