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31nerve-racking — nerve .racking adj nerve wracking a nerve racking situation makes you feel very nervous or worried ▪ Speaking in public can be a nerve wracking experience. ▪ Fran faced a nerve racking wait for her test results …
32nerve-racking — erve racking (n[ e]rv r[a^]k [i^]ng), adj. Extremely irritating to the nerves; stressful; trying; as, nerve wracking noise. [Also spelled {nerve wracking}.] Syn: stressful, trying. [WordNet 1.5] …
33nerve-racking — /nerrv rak ing/, adj. extremely irritating, annoying, or trying: a nerve racking day; a nerve racking noise. Also, nerve wracking. [1805 15] * * * …
34nerve-racking — also nerve wracking ADJ GRADED A nerve racking situation or experience makes you feel very tense and worried. The women and children spent a nerve racking day outside waiting while fighting continued around them... It was more nerve wracking than …
35nerve-racking nerve-wracking stressful trying — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …
36nerve-racking — or nerve wracking adjective Date: 1812 extremely trying on the nerves < a nerve racking ordeal > …
37Hot racking — (also known as hot bunking ) it is the sanctioned practice within the U.S. Navy and other military organizations of assigning more than one crew member to a bed or rack to reduce berthing (sleeping) space. The practice dates back to the sixteenth …
38nerve-racking — adj. Nerve racking is used with these nouns: ↑experience, ↑wait …
39nerve-racking — (adj.) also nerveracking, 1812, from NERVE (Cf. nerve) + prp. of verbal sense of RACK (Cf. rack) (n.1) …
40nerve-racking — adjective it s the waiting that s the most nerve racking Syn: stressful, anxious, worrying, fraught, nail biting, tense, difficult, trying, worrisome, daunting, frightening; informal scary, hairy …
