to rack one's brain · to agonize, to worry (to struggle trying to come up with a way to deal with a difficult problem)
çekim: geçmiş zerbrach mir den Kopf · ortaç sich den Kopf zerbrochen · şimdiki zerbricht sich den Kopf · ulaç sich den Kopf zerbrechend
köken: Literally, “to shatter one's head”.
Zerbrich dir darüber nicht den Kopf, das wird schon.
to cudgel one's brain, to puzzle over something; to go to a lot of trouble over something
eş: se casser le bicycle, se casser le pompon, se prendre la tête, se rompre la tête, se creuser la tête
to rack one's brains
çekim: geçmiş me devané los sesos · ortaç devanado los sesos
köken: Literally, “to coil the brain”.
reflexive of arrovellare · to torment oneself · to brood
çekim: geçmiş arrovellàtosi · ortaç arrovellàtosi · şimdiki si arrovèlla · ulaç arrovellàntesi
to rack one's brain (struggle to think of something)
çekim: geçmiş quebrei a cabeça · ortaç quebrado a cabeça
rack one's brains
çekim: geçmiş 脳漿を絞った
intensywnie zastanawiać się nad czymś; myśleć, rozmyślać, szukać odpowiedzi
eş: głowić się, zachodzić w głowę, suszyć sobie głowę, łamać sobie łeb
to rack one's brain (to struggle to think of or remember something)
köken: miettiä (“to think, contemplate”) + päänsä (“one's head”) + puhki (“having a hole through”)
Olen miettinyt pääni puhki yrittäen keksiä hänelle syntymäpäivälahjaa.
to rack one's brain
köken: tör (“to break”) + -i (personal suffix) + a (“the”) + fej (“head”) + -e (possessive suffix) + -t (accusative suffix), literally “to break one's head”
aile: rosszban töri a fejét
to rack one's brains
çekim: geçmiş m' escalfí el cap · ortaç escalfat el cap
köken: Literally, "to overheat one's head".
Per molt que s'escalfava el cap no trobava la solució.
to ponder, to rack one's brain
çekim: geçmiş braut heilann
köken: Literally, “to break the brain”.
Ég hef brotið heilann um spurninguna.
to think hard, rack one's brain
çekim: geçmiş cerbumis · ortaç cerbuminta · ulaç cerbumanta
köken: Etymology tree Esperanto cerbo Esperanto umi Esperanto cerbumi From cerbo (“brain”) + umi.