单词 | overracked |
释义 | † overrackedadj. Obsolete. Racked to excess; overstrained. Also figurative. Cf. racked adj.2 ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > full of or subject to extreme or excessive > exerted by straineda1542 overracked1589 overstrained1599 exerted1675 overtasked1828 screwed-up1829 1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. **2 So shoulde..their ouer-rackte Rhethorique, bee the Ironicall recreation of the Reader. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. K Nor are these all, for euerie third line hath some of this ouer-rackt absonisme. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 281 A drooping life, an ouer-racked braine. 1624 R. Eburne Plain Pathway to Plantations (1962) 45 They may be freed from these extreme fines and overracked rents which make their old neighbors and native friends behind to groan. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1589 |
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