Nerve-wreck
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nerve-wreck is a noun meaning A person who is debilitated by stress.
Meaning
A person who is debilitated by stress.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of nerve rack.
Example Sentences
He was a nerve-wreck.
It wouldn't happen again, for not one in a hundred of your Squadron-Leaders is a nerve-wreck.
Plunging deep in trauma and nerve-wreck after surviving a Nazi' shelling in one of the felled London streets.
Behold the triumph of hypnotic mystification by the might of which the vacuous become profound and the flabby-willed nerve-wreck a heroine of dauntless faith!
Word Forms
- nerve-wrecks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nerve-wrack, nervewrack, nerverack, neurotic, nerve, psychoneurotic.
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