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nerve-wracked

nerve-wracked is the alternative form of nerve-racked.

Meaning of nerve-racked

Adjective

nerve-racked (comparative more nerve-racked, superlative most nerve-racked)

  1. Experiencing nerve rack.
    • He was the last person a nerve-racked trader wanted to see.1989, Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker, →ISBN, page 13

Forms of nerve-wracked

comparativemore nerve-wracked
superlativemost nerve-wracked

Questions about nerve-wracked

What is nerve-wracked the alternative form of?
Nerve-wracked is the alternative form of nerve-racked.

Words near nerve-wracked in the dictionary

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

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