Nerve-wrack
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nerve-wrack is a noun meaning Alternative form of nerve rack.
Meaning
Alternative form of nerve rack.
Example Sentences
Dull and heavy, but with his headache and nerve-wrack gone. Billy sauntered out into the street.
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.
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."
Word Forms
- nerve-wracks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nerve-racking, stressful, trying, disagreeable, distressing, scary.
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