English

Alternative forms

• pain-wracked

Adjective

pain-racked ‎(comparative more pain-racked, superlative most pain-racked)

1. Racked with pain, in pain, suffering.
   • 1786, “Poetry”, in Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, page 661:

     ’Tis thine to ease the pain-racked breast, With doubts, with trembling fear o’erwhelm’d

   • 1988 June 28, “Foot Pain Is No Laughing Matter: At Last—Here’s Instant Relief!”, in Weekly World News, page (insert):

     It’s designed to apply the natural laws of foot motion to pain-racked feet. … Order today and say goodbye forever to sore, tired, pain-racked feet!

See also

• nerve-racking
• storm-wracked