Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair.
Milton.
3. To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or
oppress by extortion.
The landlords there shamefully rack their tenants.
Spenser.
They [landlords] rack their rents an ace too high.
Gascoigne.
Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true
intent thereof.
Fuller.
Try what my credit can in Venice do; That shall be racked even to
the uttermost.
Shak.