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Nerve-wracking

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of nerve-racking. alt-of, alternative, proscribed

    "To thrust this grating, screeching, nerve wracking, heart-rending, worse than Pandemonial howling, upon such an occasion, is the climax of cruelty."

Adjective
  1. 1
    extremely irritating to the nerves wordnet

Etymology

1867, following earlier nerve-racking (1812).

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