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nerve-wrecks

nerve-wrecks is the plural of nerve-wreck.

Meaning of nerve-wreck

Noun

nerve-wreck (plural nerve-wrecks)

  1. A person who is debilitated by stress.
    • 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!1911, The Literary Digest - Volume 42, page 684

Questions about nerve-wrecks

What is nerve-wrecks the plural of?
Nerve-wrecks is the plural of nerve-wreck.

Words near nerve-wrecks in the dictionary

  1. nerve-wracked
  2. nerve-wracking
  3. nerve-wracks
  4. nerve-wreck
  5. nerve-wrecking
  6. nerve-wrecks
  7. nerved
  8. nerved out
  9. nerved up
  10. nerveless
  11. nervelessly

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