Noun

• S: (n) rack (framework for holding objects)
• S: (n) rack (rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton)
• S: (n) wrack, rack (the destruction or collapse of something) "wrack and ruin"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) destruction, demolition, wipeout (an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something)
• S: (n) ending, conclusion, finish (event whose occurrence ends something) "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show"
• S: (n) happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event (an event that happens)
• S: (n) event (something that happens at a given place and time)
• S: (n) psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) rack, wheel (an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims)
• S: (n) rack, stand (a support for displaying various articles) "the newspapers were arranged on a rack"
• S: (n) rack (a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body)
• S: (n) rack, single-foot (a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately)

Verb

• S: (v) single-foot, rack (go at a rack) "the horses single-footed"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) rack (stretch to the limits) "rack one's brains"
• S: (v) rack (put on a rack and pinion) "rack a camera"
• S: (v) extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring (obtain by coercion or intimidation) "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
• S: (v) scud, rack (run before a gale)
• S: (v) rack (fly in high wind)
• S: (v) rack (draw off from the lees) "rack wine"
• S: (v) torment, torture, excruciate, rack (torment emotionally or mentally)
• S: (v) rack (work on a rack) "rack leather"
• S: (v) rack (seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block)
• S: (v) rack (torture on the rack)