Synonym: agonize, distress, framework, harass, hurt, pain, punish, shelf, strain, torment, torture. Similar words: track, crack, track down, trace, racial, racism, miracle, attract. Meaning: [ræk] 
n. 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 4. an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims 5. a support for displaying various articles 6. a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body 7. a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately. v. 1. go at a rack 2. stretch to the limits 3. put on a rack and pinion 4. obtain by coercion or intimidation 5. run before a gale 6. fly in high wind 7. draw off from the lees 8. torment emotionally or mentally 9. work on a rack 10. seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block 11. torture on the rack.
n. 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 4. an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims 5. a support for displaying various articles 6. a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body 7. a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately. v. 1. go at a rack 2. stretch to the limits 3. put on a rack and pinion 4. obtain by coercion or intimidation 5. run before a gale 6. fly in high wind 7. draw off from the lees 8. torment emotionally or mentally 9. work on a rack 10. seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block 11. torture on the rack. 
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31 The old empty house soon went to rack and ruin.
32 Hang your coat and hat on the rack over there.
33 The house had been left to go to rack and ruin.
34 The author's meaning is so clear that there can be no room to rack the text.
35 We come to the stable to rack up the horses in the evening every day.
36 The company is now well and truly on the rack.
37 A lot of designer clothes are now available off the rack.
38 Ordinarily they were able to rack up all the other teams without the lightest effort.
39 She began to rack her brains to remember what had happened at the nursing home.
40 He had to rack his brains to solve that complicated problem.
41 Only a year ago, he was on the rack with a heroin addiction that began when he was 13.
42 I took the key for the room off a rack above her head.
43 The old farmhouse had gone to rack and ruin.
44 The pound, however, was still on the rack.
45 Move the broiler rack a notch lower.
46 A full rack of gear should be carried.
47 Heater too close to coat rack. 7.
48 Will Tie Rack come to a full stop?
49 There were only face towels left on the rack.
50 Swap for rack mounted sound module.
51 Follow recipe instructions in positioning the rack.
52 When the Babbel incident blew up,[www.Sentencedict.com] Liverpool really were on the rack.
53 Above the stove there hung a laundry rack, suspended on a system of pulleys.
54 Turn out of pan on to rack to cool completely.
55 Each day now Phagu went scouting in the jeep, Kamesh driving, he and I perched up on the luggage rack.
56 First they let the house go to rack and ruin, then the garden; now they were sheltering hippies.
57 Place baking dish in a larger baking pan, set pan on oven rack.
58 Set pie on upper oven rack and put a baking sheet on shelf below to catch any drips.
59 Mountain lifts: Climb mountains the easy way by chair lift or by rack railway and cable car.
60 His characteristic attitude is one of close scrutiny and interrogation; he puts his documents on the rack, as it were.