MEANING
Causing pronounced anxiety or nervous strain.
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- nerve-racking wait
- nerve-racking ordeal
- nerve-racking interview
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The final minutes of the rescue were nerve-racking.
She described the interview as the most nerve-racking hour of the week.
A nerve-racking wait followed the radio’s last transmission.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Comparative more nerve-racking; superlative most nerve-racking. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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