Meanings
comparative more nerve-racked · superlative most nerve-racked · alternative nerveracked · alternative nerve-wracked · alternative nervewracked
- Experiencing nerve rack.
He was the last person a nerve-racked trader wanted to see.
1989, Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker, →ISBN, page 132 more examples
But as things are to-day it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the majority of wives are left wakeful and nerve-racked to watch with tender motherly brooding, or with bitter and jealous envy, the slumbers of the men who, through ignorance and carelessness, have neglected to see that they too had the necessary resolution of nervous tension.
2009, Anthony Capella, The Wedding Officer, →ISBNSiana spent a nerve-racked night, searching her conscience as she tossed and turned.
2014, Janet Woods, A Handful of Ashes, →ISBN
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