nerve-wrack

plural nerve-wracks

1. alternativeAlternative form of nerve rack.

   Dull and heavy, but with his headache and nerve-wrack gone. Billy sauntered out into the street.

   1919, The Cosmopolitan - Volume 68, page 159

   2 more examples

   It lies just where it can be of most service to our workaday world in short spells of rest from the nerve-wrack of the week, though that is not to say that there are not innumerable retreats amid hills, dales and woodlands where those in need of rest and healing may linger and "fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden world."

   1926, Thomas L. Tudor, The High Peak to Sherwood: The Hills and Dales of Old Mercia

   Where too often a suburban street may suggest the opening pageant of a mask ball, here is something picturesque without motley, interesting without nerve-wrack.

   1928, Architect and Engineer - Volumes 94-95, page 125