nerve-wracked

English

Adjective

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

1. Alternative form of nerve-racked
   • 2009, Josh DiPietro, The Truth About Day Trading Stocks, →ISBN:

     Amateur traders get nerve-wracked, and tend to sell short of their predetermined exit points.

   • 2013, Shozan Jack Haubner, Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk, →ISBN, page 135:

     I dropped to my knees in the Saint Aquinas chapel every single night for two weeks straight and dialed the divine Dr. Phil for guidance, implicitly blaming him for my woes: You created my pitiful self-consciousness and nerve-wracked sexuality with your religious rules and prohibitions —do something about it!

   • 2014, Robert Sitton, Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film, →ISBN, page 99:

     With regard to the latter, she wrote of “the undeniable calmative value of the motion picture as a relaxation for nerve-wracked humanity."