Racking and Trying

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Racking adjective - Intensely or unbearably painful.

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Trying and racking are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trying" instead an adjective "Racking".

Nearby Words: rack, racked

Trying adjective - Difficult to endure.

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Racking and trying are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Racking" instead an adjective "Trying".

Nearby Words: try, tried

He spends the entire episode over-analyzing and racking his brain trying to figure out what the dream means and what its trying to tell him.

Source: What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?
Custer (Flynn) starts out as a flamboyant, gregarious West Point plebe, who spends most of his time racking up demerits and trying to avoid expulsion.

Source: Film / They Died with Their Boots On
Wazzer lightly calls her on this later, and Polly starts racking her brains trying to remember if she ever mentioned the inn.

Source: Discworld / Monstrous Regiment

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