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NERVE-RACKING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nerve-racking mean?
• NERVE-RACKING (adjective)
The adjective NERVE-RACKING has 1 sense:
1. extremely irritating to the nerves
Familiarity information: NERVE-RACKING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely irritating to the nerves
Synonyms:
nerve-racking; nerve-wracking; stressful; trying
Context example:
a trying day at the office
Similar:
disagreeable (not to your liking)
Context examples
A stranger could not hear this note, and to such a stranger the growling of White Fang was an exhibition of primordial savagery, nerve-racking and blood-curdling.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
When it was over, and Mugridge was back in the galley, he became greasily radiant, and went about his work, humming coster songs in a nerve-racking and discordant falsetto.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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