| 单词 | brain-racking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrain-racking brain-racking adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun] tintreghc893 threat971 piningOE murderOE anguish?c1225 woea1250 pinec1275 tormentc1290 languorc1300 heartbreakc1330 surcarkingc1330 martyrement1340 threst1340 agonyc1384 martyrdomc1384 tormentryc1386 martyre?a1400 tormentisec1405 rack?a1425 anguishing1433 angorc1450 anguishnessa1475 torture?c1550 heartsickness1556 butchery1582 heartache1587 anguishment1592 living hell1596 discruciation1597 heart-aching1607 throeing1615 rigour1632 crucifixion1648 lancination1649 bosom-hell1674 heart-rending1707 brain-racking1708 tormentation1789 bosom-throe1827 angoisse1910 the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective] anguishous?c1225 wounding?c1225 asperc1374 derflya1400 rending?c1400 furiousc1405 fretting1413 piercingc1450 anguish1477 piquant1521 anguishing?1566 plaguing1566 asperous?1567 agonizing1570 tormenting1575 wringing1576 cutting1582 tormentous1583 tormentful1596 tormentuous1597 racking1598 torturous1600 lacerating1609 torturing1611 tearinga1616 heart-aching1620 breast-rending1625 crucifying1648 tormentative1654 martyring?a1656 tormentive1655 discruciating1658 cruciatory1660 anguishful1685 brain-racking1708 probing1749 agonized1793 anguished1803 harrowing1810 vulnerary1821 grinding1869 torturesome1889 wrenching1889 tortuous1922 1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 23 Oft at Midnight Lamp [I] Ply my brain-racking Studies. 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane iv. 160 The muse, at midnight-hour, This last brain-racking study had not ply'd. 1840 Mechanics' Mag. 19 Sept. 315/1 I could not help thinking..how much deep thinking and brain racking is excited in statement, answer, and replication. 1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant i. 4 My very footfalls time themselves to the brain-racking rhythm. 1964 D. Hymes in Transcultural Stud. in Cognition 34 The nights of beer drinking and brain wracking spent in the Rainbow Café at the edge of Warm Springs reservation. 2001 M. Coleman Snog Log (2009) 102 An OM-free Sunday lunch, an OM-present but gloweringly silent supper, and a brain-racking evening went by before he got it. < as lemmas |
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