| 单词 | to put, set, place, etc on the rack |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put, set, place, etc. on the rack c. to put, set, place, etc. on the rack: to stretch (faculties, words, etc.) to the limit; to put (a person) in an extremely difficult or awkward position. to be on the rack: to be stretched to the limit. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [verb (transitive)] > put the limbs or faculties to abnormal exertion swinkc1300 strain1446 stress1540 to put, set, place, etc. on the rack1599 taska1616 tax1672 force1825 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > pervert or distort [verb (transitive)] crooka1340 deprave1382 pervertc1390 strainc1449 drawc1450 miswrest?a1475 bewrya1522 wry?1521 to make a Welshman's hose ofa1529 writhea1533 wrest1533 invert1534 wring?1541 depravate1548 rack1548 violent1549 wrench1549 train1551 wreathe1556 throw1558 detorta1575 shuffle1589 wriggle1593 distortc1595 to put, set, place, etc. on the rack1599 twine1600 wire-draw1610 monstrify1617 screw1628 corrupt1630 gloss1638 torture1648 force1662 vex1678 refract1700 warp1717 to put a force upon1729 twist1821 ply1988 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > make physical effort > be at full stretch to be on the rack1599 extend1886 1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 35 This I say not onelie of my generall speeches sett vpon the racke to make me odious to your Studentes. 1606 S. Hieron Truths Purchase in Wks. (1620) I. 65 My text very naturally, without setting it vpon the racke, occasioneth the vrging of that duty. 1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities sig. a 2 Mystical Notions, which put the Understanding upon the Wrack. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 86 Sometimes I set my Wits upon the Rack. 1693 R. Fleming Disc. Earthquakes 23 Men are so much on the Rack how to solve all by natural Demonstration. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub iv. 103 He had kept his Brain so long, and so violently upon the Rack, that at last it shook it self. 1778 F. Burney Jrnl. Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 75 They have both worn themselves out by being eternally on the rack to give entertainment to others. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xix. 284 So much had her nerves been on the rack for her patron's safety. View more context for this quotation 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iii. 279 Martin's ingenuity was therefore for ever on the rack to supply himself with a light. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad liii. 572 The gaudy trappings of the Greek Church offend the eye and keep the mind on the rack to remember that this is the Place of the Crucifixion. 1907 H. James Introd. Tempest in S. Lee Compl. Wks. Shakespeare XVI. Introd. p. ix To mock our..ignorance..and thereby to place on the rack again our strained and aching wonder. 1926 J. M. March Wild Party (1928) II. ii. 39 Now she'd make him suffer! She had planned this party to put him on the rack. 1974 Sunday Tel. 9 June 34/4 A spineless exhibition by the early Yorkshire batting..put them on the rack yet again. 1992 Glasgow Herald 16 Nov. (Sport Suppl.) 3/4 Boroughmuir, playing some vintage rugby, had 'Sonians on the rack and Robertson scored the simplest of tries. < as lemmas |
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