nerve-racked

English

Adjective

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

1. Experiencing nerve rack.
   • 1989, Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker, →ISBN, page 13:

     He was the last person a nerve-racked trader wanted to see.

   • 2009, Anthony Capella, The Wedding Officer, →ISBN:

     But as things are to-day it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the majority of wives are left wakeful and nerve-racked to watch with tender motherly brooding, or with bitter and jealous envy, the slumbers of the men who, through ignorance and carelessness, have neglected to see that they too had the necessary resolution of nervous tension.

   • 2014, Janet Woods, A Handful of Ashes, →ISBN:

     Siana spent a nerve-racked night, searching her conscience as she tossed and turned.

Alternative forms

• nerveracked, nerve-wracked, nervewracked