rax
/ɹæks/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.90 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Shoeless, he stood naked on his toes, his arms raxed upwards."
- "Please rax me the pitcher."
- "Wha the mischief set him on reading me? I'm sure he could never read onything in a dacent-like way since he was cleckit—rax me the Queen, and I'll let you hear a bit that will gar your hearts dinnle again—rax me the Queen, I say."
- "Eventually they just broke our base and took out every single one of our raxes."
Etymology
From Middle English raxen, rasken (“to stretch oneself”), from Old English raxan, racsan (“to stretch oneself after sleep”), probably alteration, with formative s, of Old English rǣċan, ræċċan, reċċan (“to stretch, extend”), from Proto-Germanic *rakjaną (“to stretch”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“to make straight”). Related to Dutch rekken (“to stretch”), German recken (“to stretch”), Swedish räcka (“to suffice, reach, pass, last”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: raxen, raxan, rǣċan, *rakjaną, *reǵ-
Usage
- British usage
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb
- Slang
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
outrax