rax

[raks]

verb (used without object)

1. to stretch oneself, as after sleeping.

2. to extend the hand.

verb (used with object)

1. to elongate; stretch.

rax

/ ræks /

verb

1. (tr) to stretch or extend

2. (intr) to reach out

3. (tr) to pass or give (something to a person) with the outstretched hand; reach

   rax me the salt

4. (tr) to strain or sprain

noun

1. the act of stretching or straining

Word History and Origins

Origin of rax¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English (north) rasken, raxen, Old English racsan, raxan; akin to Old English reccan, reccean “to stretch,” German recken

Word History and Origins

Origin of rax¹

Old English raxan

Example Sentences

I'd tell her to read "Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We have to Offer" by Rax King.

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For example, here comes Rax King, in her ebullient book “Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer,” to make the late aughts seem like the most vivid, concrete and ecstatic moment to burst into adolescence since time out of mind.

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Midway into her debut essay collection, “Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer,” Rax King takes up the subject of “Josie and the Pussycats.”

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Danny M. Lavery is joined by Rax King on this week’s episode of the Dear Prudence podcast.

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Police told the Austrian news agency APA on Saturday that the two people were part of a group who were in the Rax mountain range in Austria, near the town of Reichenau, when the avalanche hit in the afternoon.

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