Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rack
Participle: racked
Gerund: racking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | rack |
| you | rack |
| he;she;it | racks |
| we | rack |
| you | rack |
| they | rack |
Perfect
| I | have racked |
| you | have racked |
| he;she;it | has racked |
| we | have racked |
| you | have racked |
| they | have racked |
Past
| I | racked |
| you | racked |
| he;she;it | racked |
| we | racked |
| you | racked |
| they | racked |
Pluperfect
| I | had racked |
| you | had racked |
| he;she;it | had racked |
| we | had racked |
| you | had racked |
| they | had racked |
Future
| I | will rack |
| you | will rack |
| he;she;it | will rack |
| we | will rack |
| you | will rack |
| they | will rack |
Future Perfect
| I | will have racked |
| you | will have racked |
| he;she;it | will have racked |
| we | will have racked |
| you | will have racked |
| they | will have racked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rack |
| you | rack |
| he;she;it | rack |
| we | rack |
| you | rack |
| they | rack |
Perfect
| I | have racked |
| you | have racked |
| he;she;it | have racked |
| we | have racked |
| you | have racked |
| they | have racked |
Imperfect
| I | racked |
| you | racked |
| he;she;it | racked |
| we | racked |
| you | racked |
| they | racked |
Pluperfect
| I | had racked |
| you | had racked |
| he;she;it | had racked |
| we | had racked |
| you | had racked |
| they | had racked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rack |
| you | would rack |
| he;she;it | would rack |
| we | would rack |
| you | would rack |
| they | would rack |
Perfect
| I | would have racked |
| you | would have racked |
| he;she;it | would have racked |
| we | would have racked |
| you | would have racked |
| they | would have racked |
Imperative
| you | rack |
| we | Let's rack |
| you | rack |
Verbs conjugated like 'rack'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'rack'
back,
cack,
crack,
dack,
fack,
frack,
gack,
hack,
jack,
lack,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. "frame with bars," c.1305, possibly from M.Du. rec "framework," related to recken "stretch out," cognate with O.E. reccan "to stretch out," from P.Gmc. *rakjanan (cf. O.N. rekja, O.Fris. reza, O.H.G. recchen, Ger. recken, Goth. uf-rakjan "to stretch out"). The verb meaning "to sleep" is teen-ager slang from 1960s (rack was Navy slang for "bed" in 1940s). Meaning "instrument of torture" first recorded c.1460 (verb meaning "to torture on the rack" is from 1433), perhaps from Ger. rackbank, originally an implement for stretching leather, etc. Fig. sense of "agony" is from 1591. Mechanical meaning "toothed bar" is from 1797 (see pinion). Meaning "set of antlers" is first attested 1945, Amer.Eng.; hence slang sense of "a woman's breasts" (especially if large), c.1980s. Off the rack in ref. to clothing is from 1962. Rack up "register accumulate, achieve" is first attested 1961, probably from method of keeping score in pool halls.
2. From Old English reċċan (“to stretch out, extend”).
Verbs referencing "rack"
Ido rakar.
Sample Sentences
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[...] Let Eliza go—it's her right ! I wouldn't be the one to say no—‘tan't in _natur_ for her to stay; but you heard what she said ! If I must be sold, or all the people on the place, and everything go to rack, why, let me be sold. I s’pose I can bar it as well as any on ’ em, ” he added, while something like a sob and a sigh shook his broad, rough chest convulsively. “ Mas’r always found me on the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] him from a baby; but I 've seen Mas’r, and I begin ter feel sort o ’ reconciled to the Lord's will now. Mas’r couldn't help hisself; he did right, but I 'm feared things will be kinder goin ’ to rack, when I 'm gone Mas’r can't be spected to be a pryin ’ round everywhar, as I 've done, a keepin ’ up all the ends. The boys all means well, but they ’ s powerful car’less. That ar troubles me. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] hideous, and his nights dreadful. At first, he took a strange dislike to it; feeling as though it gave birth in his brain to something of corresponding shape, which ought not to be there, and racked his head with pains. Then he began to fear it, then to dream of it, and of men whispering its name and pointing to it. Then he could not bear to look at it, nor yet to turn his back upon it. Now, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] cattle: and spare the lights of Freedom upon earth who notch the ears of men and women, cut pleasant posies in the shrinking flesh, learn to write with pens of red-hot iron on the human face, rack their poetic fancies for liveries of mutilation which their slaves shall wear for life and carry to the grave, breaking living limbs as did the soldiery who mocked and slew the Saviour of the world, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)