Pain-racked

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Racked with pain, in pain, suffering.

    "’Tis thine to ease the pain-racked breast, With doubts, with trembling fear o’erwhelm’d"

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"’Tis thine to ease the pain-racked breast, With doubts, with trembling fear o’erwhelm’d"

Etymology

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

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