nerve-wracked

comparative more nerve-wracked · superlative most nerve-wracked

1. alternativeAlternative form of nerve-racked.

   Amateur traders get nerve-wracked, and tend to sell short of their predetermined exit points.

   2009, Josh DiPietro, The Truth About Day Trading Stocks, →ISBN

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   I dropped to my knees in the Saint Aquinas chapel every single night for two weeks straight and dialed the divine Dr. Phil for guidance, implicitly blaming him for my woes: You created my pitiful self-consciousness and nerve-wracked sexuality with your religious rules and prohibitions —do something about it!

   2013, Shozan Jack Haubner, Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk, →ISBN, page 135

   With regard to the latter, she wrote of “the undeniable calmative value of the motion picture as a relaxation for nerve-wracked humanity."

   2014, Robert Sitton, Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film, →ISBN, page 99