Car Reversed By Bigwig Needs Support Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "RACKING" which means:

adjective satellite
• • Causing great physical or mental suffering
verb
• • To place in or hang on a rack.
• • To torture (someone) on the rack.
• • To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
• • To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
• • To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
• • To strike a male in the testicles.
• • To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
• • To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
• • To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
• • To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
• • (structural engineering) tending to shear a structure (that is, force it to move in different directions at different points).
• • To stretch a person's joints.
• • To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir
• • To fly, as vapour or broken clouds
• • To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
• • (of a horse) to amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
noun
• • (roofing) a method of asphalt shingle application, whereby shingle courses are applied vertically, up the roof rather than laterally across and up.
• • Spun yarn used in racking ropes
• • The process of clarifying, and thereby deterring further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.

An example sentence would be:

• • "She had a racking headache that lasted all day."
• • "The racking pain in his joints made it difficult to move."

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