Racking

n.

1.

(Naut.) Spun yarn used in racking ropes.

Adj.

1.

racking - causing great physical or mental suffering; "a wrenching pain" Synonyms: wrenching

acute, afflictive, agonizing, atrocious, barbarous, biting, consuming, cramping, cruel, desolating, distressing, excruciating, ferocious, fierce, gnawing, grave, griping, hard, harrowing, harsh, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsickening, heartwounding, hurtful, hurting, inhuman, painful, paroxysmal, piercing, poignant, pungent, rending, savage, severe, sharp, shooting, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, stabbing, stinging, tearing, tormenting, torturing, torturous

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