pain-racked

English

Alternative forms
  • pain-wracked

Etymology

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

Adjective

pain-racked (comparative more pain-racked, superlative most pain-racked)

  1. Racked with pain, in pain, suffering.
    • 1786, “Poetry”, in Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, page 661:
      ’Tis thine to ease the pain-racked breast, With doubts, with trembling fear o’erwhelm’d
    • 1988 June 28, “Foot Pain Is No Laughing Matter: At Last—Here’s Instant Relief!”, in Weekly World News, page (insert):
      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!

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