Nerve-racked
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Nerve-racked is an adjective meaning Experiencing nerve rack.
Meaning
Experiencing nerve rack.
Example Sentences
He was the last person a nerve-racked trader wanted to see.
Siana spent a nerve-racked night, searching her conscience as she tossed and turned.
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.
Word Forms
- nerveracked
- nerve-wracked
- nervewracked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nerve-wracking, stressful, trying, disagreeable, distressing, scary.
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