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wrack one's brain

wrack one's brain verb: eggcorn of rack one's brain.

Verb

wrack one's brain (third-person singular simple present wracks one's brain, present participle wracking one's brain, simple past and past participle wracked one's brain)

  1. Eggcorn of rack one's brain.

Forms of wrack one's brain

third-person singular presentwracks one's brain
present participlewracking one's brain
past participlewracked one's brain
pastwracked one's brain

Questions about wrack one's brain

What does wrack one's brain mean?
Wrack one's brain means eggcorn of rack one's brain.
What part of speech is wrack one's brain?
Wrack one's brain is a verb.
What is the past tense of wrack one's brain?
The past tense of wrack one's brain is wracked one's brain.

Words near wrack one's brain in the dictionary

  1. WRAC
  2. wrack
  3. wrack and ruin
  4. wrack line
  5. wrack lines
  6. wrack one's brain
  7. wrack one's brains
  8. wracked
  9. wracked one's brain
  10. wrackedst
  11. wrackest

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