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nerve-wrack

nerve-wrack is the alternative form of nerve rack.

Meaning of nerve rack

Noun

nerve rack (plural nerve racks)

  1. A state of extreme emotional distress from a nerve-racking experience.
    • A hypodermic will secure much needed rest and promptly relieve bone ache and nerve rack.1903, Burnside Foster, Saint Paul Medical Journal - Volume 5, page 372

Forms of nerve-wrack

pluralnerve-wracks

Questions about nerve-wrack

What is nerve-wrack the alternative form of?
Nerve-wrack is the alternative form of nerve rack.

Words near nerve-wrack in the dictionary

  1. nerve-rackingly
  2. nerve-racks
  3. nerve-shredder
  4. nerve-shredders
  5. nerve-shredding
  6. nerve-wrack
  7. nerve-wracked
  8. nerve-wracking
  9. nerve-wracks
  10. nerve-wreck
  11. nerve-wrecking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nerve-wrack (page history and authors); nerve rack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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