Synonyms for racking
rack·ing

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1. racking, wrenchingadjective

   causing great physical or mental suffering

   "a wrenching pain"

   Synonyms:
   wrenching

   Antonyms:
   painless

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1. Jeff Green:

   Leading up to it was nerve-racking, i couldn't run. I couldn't touch a basketball. I couldn't get stressed out, it was tough.

2. W. Somerset Maugham:

   Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

3. Nicolas Huktin:

   Just seeing the shelves just bare, it's pretty nerve-racking, especially when you start getting down to your last couple of cans and you're just not sure what you're going to if you can't find that formula, we're in a situation where our children are on this formula because of the calorie content of it -- not because they have food allergies -- so if we really needed to, we could put them on a different formula -- but only if we needed to... There are a lot of families that don't have that option.

4. Shane Baz:

   The Olympics was definitely nerve-racking, even moreso that there were no fans there, so you didn’t really have the buzz of the crowd to keep you into it, it was really strange but I think it helped me a lot. I think I was more nervous for that than I am now.

5. Matthew Stafford:

   Watching him attack it day in and day out, it was unbelievable, it was nerve-racking for me at times. I'd be in there getting ready for practice or something and he's starting to jump rope for the first time and I know how far out of surgery he is.