nerveracked

comparative more nerveracked · superlative most nerveracked

1. alternativeAlternative form of nerve-racked.

   The men grew nerveracked and hysterical, after months of having every wish gratified and of being unable to imagine anything — except freedom — which was not instantly provided.

   1959, Will Jenkins, Monsters and such, page 26

   2 more examples

   They face life in varied ways — some nerveracked and tense, some graceful and ironic, some lusty and ruthless, some shadowed and mysterious, some bitter and defiant — but unquestionably they all face it, with scant truckling to any public thirsting for spurious joy and the conventional happy ending.

   1922, The Bookman - Volume 54, page 33

   One problem for this biographer is that the dramatic climax of his life, which throws a romantic light even on what was tedious and nerveracked in his past, may make him seem too remarkable: unique as no man is, instead of unique as all men are.

   1986, The Anglo-Welsh Review - Issues 82-88, page 150