English words for 'In a tortured manner.'
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verb
noun
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- extreme mental distress
- a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
- the act of harassing someone
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- a severe affliction
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
verb
noun
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- extreme mental distress
- the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
- (in figurative or extended use) An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
- (BDSM, in combination) Sexual activity involving the infliction of pain to a certain body part or in a certain manner.
- Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
verb
- torture and torment like a martyr
- (transitive) To torment; to torture.
- kill as a martyr
- (transitive) To persecute.
- (transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
noun
- one who suffers for the sake of principle
- one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
- (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
- (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly or constantly, even involuntarily.
- One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.
- (derogatory) Someone who exaggerates their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy.
adj
noun
- Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason.
- The condition of a martyr; the death or suffering of a martyr; the death or suffering on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.
- death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause
- any experience that causes intense suffering
adj
noun
- Suffering, torment.
- (Christianity) Christ's ravaging or hostile incursion of Hell, conducted between his crucifixion and resurrection, in which he liberated the souls of the righteous held captive by Satan.
- The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
- Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
adj
verb
noun
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
verb
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- stretch to the limits
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
noun
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- forces that provide energy and direction
- game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in
- a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel
- a handwheel that is used for steering
- (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
- A Catherine wheel firework.
- (mathematics) A type of algebra where division is always defined, and in particular division by zero is meaningful.
- A spinning wheel.
- A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
- A round portion of cheese.
- (poker slang) The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker: either ace-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-7, depending on the variant.
- A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
- (prosody) The return to a peculiar rhythm at the end of each stanza.
- (figurative) The control of, or ability to steer, the course of events.
- (automotive) A wheelrim.
- (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
- The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
- (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
- (figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
- A maneuver in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.
- A potter's wheel.
verb
- wheel somebody or something
- ride a bicycle
- change directions as if revolving on a pivot
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
- (transitive) To roll along on wheels.
- (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
- (intransitive, grime music) To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.
- (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
- (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
noun
- (figuratively) An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone.
- An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
- (Christianity, often capitalized) The death of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
- (military, historical, colloquial) The military punishment of being tied to a fixed object, often with the limbs in a stretched position.
- the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering
- the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross
noun
- A torture chamber.
- A room primarily used for sex, often a sex dungeon or a room used by a prostitute.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, room.
- (politics) The legislative chamber of the upper house in a bicameral parliament.
- A VIP room.
- (Internet) A purported kind of online forum where livestreams or videos of torture and murder can be viewed over the dark web.
verb
- behave extremely cruelly and brutally
- engage in amorous play
- become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
- spend wastefully
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
- (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
- (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
- (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
adj
noun
noun
noun
- someone who torments
- a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
- One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
- (figuratively) Something abstract that causes suffering.
- An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
- (theater) One of a pair of narrow curtains just behind the front curtain and teaser that mask the areas on the sides of the stage and can be adjusted to the desired width.
noun
verb
verb
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- (intransitive) Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- (slang) To beat someone at something.
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.
- (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- emit a cloud of fine particles
- inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
noun
- (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- Pollen scattered by a plant.
- Mist, fog, or drizzle; water vapour, such as from exhalation into cold air.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- (uncountable, slang) Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
- (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- street names for marijuana
- tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
- something with no concrete substance
- a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
- an indication of some hidden activity
- the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
noun
- The act of mortifying.
- A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
- A bringing under of the passions and appetites by a severe or strict manner of living.
- (medicine) The death of part of the body.
- (chiefly Scots law, now historical) A bequest to a charitable institution.
- an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
- strong feelings of embarrassment
- (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)
- the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
noun
- Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason.
- The condition of a martyr; the death or suffering of a martyr; the death or suffering on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.
- death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause
- any experience that causes intense suffering
verb
noun
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- extreme mental distress
- a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
- the act of harassing someone
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- a severe affliction
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
noun
- Suffering, torment.
- (Christianity) Christ's ravaging or hostile incursion of Hell, conducted between his crucifixion and resurrection, in which he liberated the souls of the righteous held captive by Satan.
- The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
- Ravaging; hostile incursion; spoliation; intentional widespread destruction.
adj
verb
noun
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
verb
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- stretch to the limits
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
noun
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- forces that provide energy and direction
- game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in
- a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel
- a handwheel that is used for steering
- (poker slang) The lowest straight in poker: ace-2-3-4-5.
- A Catherine wheel firework.
- (mathematics) A type of algebra where division is always defined, and in particular division by zero is meaningful.
- A spinning wheel.
- A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- (nautical) The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
- A round portion of cheese.
- (poker slang) The best low hand in Lowball or High-low split poker: either ace-2-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5-7, depending on the variant.
- A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
- (prosody) The return to a peculiar rhythm at the end of each stanza.
- (figurative) The control of, or ability to steer, the course of events.
- (automotive) A wheelrim.
- (informal, with "the") A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
- The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
- (slang) A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
- (figurative) A recurring or cyclical course of events.
- A maneuver in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.
- A potter's wheel.
verb
- wheel somebody or something
- ride a bicycle
- change directions as if revolving on a pivot
- move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- (transitive) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
- (transitive) To roll along on wheels.
- (intransitive) To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
- (intransitive, grime music) To reload a track; to play a wheel-up.
- (transitive) To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
- (intransitive) To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
noun
- (figuratively) An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone.
- An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
- (Christianity, often capitalized) The death of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
- (military, historical, colloquial) The military punishment of being tied to a fixed object, often with the limbs in a stretched position.
- the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering
- the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross
noun
- A torture chamber.
- A room primarily used for sex, often a sex dungeon or a room used by a prostitute.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, room.
- (politics) The legislative chamber of the upper house in a bicameral parliament.
- A VIP room.
- (Internet) A purported kind of online forum where livestreams or videos of torture and murder can be viewed over the dark web.
noun
noun
- someone who torments
- a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
- One who torments; a person, animal, or object that causes suffering.
- (figuratively) Something abstract that causes suffering.
- An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
- (theater) One of a pair of narrow curtains just behind the front curtain and teaser that mask the areas on the sides of the stage and can be adjusted to the desired width.
noun
verb
noun
- The act of mortifying.
- A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
- A bringing under of the passions and appetites by a severe or strict manner of living.
- (medicine) The death of part of the body.
- (chiefly Scots law, now historical) A bequest to a charitable institution.
- an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
- strong feelings of embarrassment
- (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)
- the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
verb
noun
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- extreme mental distress
- a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
- the act of harassing someone
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- a severe affliction
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
verb
noun
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- extreme mental distress
- the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
- (in figurative or extended use) An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
- (BDSM, in combination) Sexual activity involving the infliction of pain to a certain body part or in a certain manner.
- Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
verb
- torture and torment like a martyr
- (transitive) To torment; to torture.
- kill as a martyr
- (transitive) To persecute.
- (transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
noun
- one who suffers for the sake of principle
- one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
- (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
- (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly or constantly, even involuntarily.
- One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.
- (derogatory) Someone who exaggerates their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy.
verb
- behave extremely cruelly and brutally
- engage in amorous play
- become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously
- spend wastefully
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life
- (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).
- (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
- (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
adj
noun
verb
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- (intransitive) To give off smoke.
- (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- (intransitive, slang, chiefly as present participle) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- (intransitive) Of tobacco: to give off or produce smoke (in a certain manner or of a certain type).
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- (transitive) To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- (slang) To beat someone at something.
- (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To snuff out; to kill, especially with a gun.
- (intransitive) Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- (transitive) To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- (transitive) To dry or medicate by smoke.
- (transitive, US military slang) To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- emit a cloud of fine particles
- inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes
noun
- (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- Pollen scattered by a plant.
- Mist, fog, or drizzle; water vapour, such as from exhalation into cold air.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
- Opaque aerosol released on a battlefield, used e.g. to signal or to degrade enemy observation via smokescreen.
- (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball.
- (countable) A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- (uncountable, slang) Bother, trouble; problems; hassle.
- (uncountable) A light grey color tinted with blue.
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- street names for marijuana
- tobacco leaves that have been made into a cylinder
- something with no concrete substance
- a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
- an indication of some hidden activity
- the act of smoking tobacco or other substances
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
noun
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
verb
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- stretch to the limits
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.