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nerve rack

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nerve rack (plural nerve racks)

A state of extreme emotional distress from a nerve-racking experience.
- 1903, Burnside Foster, Saint Paul Medical Journal - Volume 5, page 372:
  
  A hypodermic will secure much needed rest and promptly relieve bone ache and nerve rack.
- 1917, The Christian Workers Magazine - Volume 18, page 420:
  
  Prayer has been abundantly answered in my case, and I desire your further intercessions that right soon all nerve rack and strain may pass away and that I may be once more full of power and vigor for the work of the Lord.
- 1927, Ruby Elliot Cromer, Lamuriac and other sketches, page 18:
  
  I think after these evenings of suspense and nerve rack a reaction of fatigue and depression is apt to follow the next morning.

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nerve-rack, nerverack, nerve wrack, nerve-wrack, nervewrack

nerve-rack

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nerve-rack (複数形 nerve-racks)

Alternative form of nerve rack
- 1890, Hume Nisbet, Ashes: A Tale of Two Spheres, page 235:
  For a week or two he answered airily enough, but as the time rolled on, the stereotyped replies grew forced, and the cold questions more pointed and insulting; clearly Mr. Melgarf was losing his respect once more, and showing it, until those exactly-timed visits became more the nerve-racks which they had been before.
- 1907, William Bittle Wells, ‎Lute Pease, The Pacific Monthly: A Magazine of Education and Progress:
  I shouted and laughed in a wild frenzy of overspilling nerve-rack while the blood in my veins swelled and leaped to the rhythm of the wheels—I was again stealing my way along one of vagrancy 's beaten paths, and the going was none too certain!
- 1916, George Allan England, The Golden Blight, page 44:
  John Stoem, during this time of nerve-rack and distress for Murchison, was thinking of quite other things.

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