Nerve-shredding

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Suspenseful. informal

    "The interior of an active diesel locomotive's engine compartment was the nerve-shredding inferno I had imagined, intensified because the bulk of the violently drumming power plant hems you so close to it."

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nail-biting

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"The interior of an active diesel locomotive's engine compartment was the nerve-shredding inferno I had imagined, intensified because the bulk of the violently drumming power plant hems you so close to it."

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