To rack one's brains

Also found in: Idioms.

to exert one's thinking processes to the utmost for the purpose of accomplishing something; as, I racked my brains out trying to find a way to solve the problem.

See also: Rack

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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brain
chew
chew on
chew out
cogitate
consider
contemplate
deliberate
entertain
excogitate
grub
meditate
mull
muse
ponder
rack
rack and pinion
rack up
racked

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To put the best foot foremost
To put the cart before the horse
To put the comether on
To put the great seal into commission
To put the hand unto
To put the kibosh on
To put the last hand to
To put the screws on
To put to flight
To put to grass
To put to nurse
To put to one's trumps
To put to rout
To put to sea
To put to shame
To put to the blush
To put to the rack
To put to the sword
To put under the screw
To put up
To put up the spout
To put up to
To put up with
To quit cost
To quit scores
To rack one's brains
To raise a blockade
To raise a check
To raise a siege
To raise Cain
To raise dust
To raise steam
To raise the horn
To raise the wind
To rake out
To rake up
To rap and ren
To rap and rend
To rape and ren
To rate a chronometer
To rattle off
To reach after
To read between the lines
To read one's self in
To reckon for
To reckon on
To reckon with
To record a deed
To rectify a globe
To redeem the time
To reduce a square
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To put the great seal into commission
To put the hand unto
To put the kibosh on
To put the last hand to
To put the screws on
To put to flight
To put to grass
To put to nurse
To put to one's trumps
To put to rout
To put to sea
To put to shame
To put to the blush
To put to the rack
To put to the sword
to put too fine a point on it
to put two and two together
To put under the screw
To put up
To put up the spout
To put up to
To put up with
to put words into someone's mouth
to put/set one's shoulder to the wheel
to put/throw one's hat in the ring
to quake/shake like a leaf
To quarter
To quit cost
To quit scores
to rack one's brain
To rack one's brains
to rain on someone's parade
To raise a blockade
To raise a check
To raise a siege
To raise Cain
To raise Cain
To raise dust
to raise one's hackles
To raise steam
to raise the ante
To raise the horn
to raise the roof
To raise the wind
To rake out
To rake up
to rally 'round the flag
to rally round the flag
to rant and rave
To rap and ren
To rap and rend
To rate a chronometer
To Rattle
To Rattle
To Rattle
To rattle off
To reach after
to reach the end of one's rope
To Reach Urban Communities Everywhere
To Read and Understand Science Together and Independently
To read between the lines
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