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nerve-wracked en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of nerve-racked.
    • 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:
    • 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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most nerve-wracked Degree=Sup lexicographic
more nerve-wracked Degree=Cmp lexicographic