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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 rack
  2. nerve racks
  3. nerve trunk
  4. nerve trunks
  5. nerve up
  6. nerve wrack
  7. nerve wracks
  8. nerve-jangling
  9. nerve-rack
  10. nerve-racked
  11. nerve-racking

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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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