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on the rack

on the rack prepositional phrase: to be under great stress, anxiety, or physical strain.

Prepositional phrase

on the rack

  1. (idiomatic) To be under great stress, anxiety, or physical strain.

on the rack meaning in Malayalam

on the rack in Malayalam

under stress, under pressure, under a strain
അമിതപീഡ അനുഭവിച്ചുകൊണ്ട്, ഞെരുക്കപ്പെട്ട്, സമ്മർദ്ദത്തിൽ പെട്ട്, പിരിമുറുക്കത്തിൽ പെട്ട്, കുഴപ്പത്തിൽ, കൊടിയ വിപത്തിൽ

Questions about on the rack

What does on the rack mean?
On the rack means to be under great stress, anxiety, or physical strain.
What is on the rack in Malayalam?
On the rack in Malayalam is അമിതപീഡ അനുഭവിച്ചുകൊണ്ട്, ഞെരുക്കപ്പെട്ട്, സമ്മർദ്ദത്തിൽ പെട്ട്. See On the rack meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is on the rack?
On the rack is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on the rack in the dictionary

  1. on the q.t.
  2. on the qt
  3. on the quarter
  4. on the qui vive
  5. on the quiet
  6. on the rack
  7. on the radar
  8. on the rag
  9. on the rail
  10. on the rails
  11. on the rampage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on the rack (page history and authors); on the rack (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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