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racking
Part of speech: NounThe act of drawing off liquors from the lees.
Part of speech: AdjectiveDistressing; torturing; tormenting.
Usage examples "racking":- Those moments in the bank, surrounded by danger, had been nerve- racking even to his experience. - "Black Jack", Max Brand.
- Locke had an almost overpowering desire to return to assist his detectives, whom he realized might be in sore straits, but he also realized that his first duty was to this girl who was in his charge, on whom the events through which they had just passed had had a nerve- racking effect. - "The Master Mystery", Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey.
- A long and nerve- racking wait ensued. - "Elizabethan Sea Dogs", William Wood.