Usually means: Causing extreme physical or mental distress.
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  1. wracking: Merriam-Webster
  2. wracking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. wracking: Vocabulary.com
  4. wracking: Wordnik
  5. wracking: Wiktionary
  6. wracking: Dictionary.com
  7. wracking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wracking: Legal dictionary

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  1. wracking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wracking: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wrack)

noun:  (archaic, dialectal or literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
noun:  (archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
noun:  The remains of something; a wreck.
verb:  (UK dialectal, transitive) To execute vengeance on; avenge.
verb:  (UK dialectal, transitive) To worry; tease; torment.
noun:  (archaic)
noun:  Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
noun:  The right to claim such items.
noun:  Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
noun:  Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
noun:  A high, flying cloud; a rack.
verb:  (transitive, usually passive voice) To wreck, especially a ship.
verb:  Alternative form of rack (β€œto cause to suffer pain, etc.”) [To place in or hang on a rack.]
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