Meaning of nerve-wrack | Babel Free
Definitions
Noun. [C1]
Examples
“Dull and heavy, but with his headache and nerve-wrack gone. Billy sauntered out into the street.”
“It lies just where it can be of most service to our workaday world in short spells of rest⟳ from the nerve-wrack of the week, though that is not to say⟳ that there are not innumerable retreats amid hills, dales and woodlands where those in need⟳ of rest⟳ and healing may linger and "fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden world."”
“Where too often a suburban street may suggest⟳ the opening pageant of a mask ball, here is something picturesque without motley, interesting without nerve-wrack.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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