"pain-racked" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more pain-racked [comparative], most pain-racked [superlative], pain-wracked [alternative]
Etymology: Variant of “racked with pain”, in sense rack (“suffer pain, torture”); see usage notes for rack. Head templates: {{en-adj}} pain-racked (comparative more pain-racked, superlative most pain-racked)
  1. Racked with pain, in pain, suffering. Categories (topical): Pain Related terms: nerve-racking, storm-wracked
    Sense id: en-pain-racked-en-adj-X0H~XqHT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1786, “Poetry”, in Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, page 661:",
          "text": "’Tis thine to ease the pain-racked breast, With doubts, with trembling fear o’erwhelm’d",
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          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Quieter and yet more quiet grew the sea, quiet as the soft mist that brooded on her bosom, and covered up her troubling, as the illusive wreaths of sleep brood upon a pain-racked mind, causing it to forget its sorrow.",
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