rack

/ræk/ verb

Translation

be racked with pain/guilt, etc › If someone is racked with pain or an emotion, they suffer a lot because of it.

üzülmek, acı çekmek

581

rack your brain/brains informal › to think very hard, usually to try to remember something or solve a problem

kafa patlatmak/yormak, çok düşünmek

11181098

rack up sth phrasal verb informal

› to get or achieve a lot of something

çok fazla olmak; gücünü aşacak kadar aşırı olmak

He's racked up debts of over thirty thousand pounds.1848

(Definition of rack verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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