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wrack one's brains

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

Verb

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

  1. Eggcorn of rack one's brains.

Forms of wrack one's brains

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

Questions about wrack one's brains

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

Words near wrack one's brains in the dictionary

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

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