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Variant of “racked with pain”, in sense rack (“suffer pain, torture”); see usage notes for rack.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pain-racked
Today it means: Racked with pain, in pain, suffering. Full definition →
Today it means: Racked with pain, in pain, suffering. Full definition →
Variant of “racked with pain”, in sense rack (“suffer pain, torture”); see usage notes for rack.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.